Neuroscientists have uncovered new insights into a key evolutionary question: Why can humans talk when most animals can't? The journal Science published the research led by Emory University and the ...

Researchers have devised a new tool for discerning between naturally occurring viral outbreaks and those resulting from lab ...

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

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

New 3D reconstructions of a key sensory organ in ctenophores reveal an unexpected structural and functional complexity. The ...

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

Some animals are born with horns while others shed their antlers each year. But what's the evolutionary purpose?

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.

Mollusks appeared 540 million years ago, but almost half the unique traits of this group evolved in the first 96 million years. Since then, the rate of evolutionary innovation has slowed and become ...

For thousands of years, scientists knew of two tiny marsupials in New Guinea only through fossils and local legend. Researchers had long considered these species extinct. However, a team recently ...

Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...