Weird History Food is taking a look at the animals we use for our food. Around 11,000 years ago when humans first began trading nomadic lifestyles for permanent communities, they also began to ...

Neuroscientists have uncovered new insights into a key evolutionary question: Why can humans talk when most animals can't?

The next step is to build a sleeker model that’s easier to manipulate, scientist say.

The chain catshark may look like any other shark in daylight, but under blue light, its skin glows neon green. Here’s a breakdown of this remarkable adaptation.

Scientists found special brain connections in seals and sea lions that help control vocal sounds. This may explain how speech ...

New research shows that the earliest sponges were soft bodied and lacked skeletons, explaining why their oldest fossils are ...

Those bizarre sea creatures that light up like carnival rides are actually ctenophores, which have an ancient brainlike structure.

Have you ever wondered why moose in Alaska are larger than their southern relatives? Have you considered why many Arctic mammals appear bulkier than species living closer to the equator? There’s a ...

Scientists have uncovered surprising complexity in a tiny sensory structure found in comb jellies, some of the oldest animals on Earth.

Wild scarlet monkeyflowers in California survived a historic drought by relying on a rapid evolution, marking the first time the process has been observed in the wild.

A new study on mayflies of the genus Ecdyonurus illustrates just how multifaceted and surprising reproductive behavior in ...

This observation – that animal lineages evolve toward larger body sizes – is known as Cope's rule. It’s most prominently seen ...