While Darwin's work on evolutionary biology was revolutionary and laid the foundation of modern scientific thinking on the subject, his views on social injustice are equally important, and carry ...

This place is what would happen if a natural history museum, a Victorian cabinet of curiosities, and your eccentric aunt’s attic had a baby. And that baby grew up to be absolutely magnificent. Walking ...

Paleorex is back on Bored Panda with his detailed, science-based creatures, showing us how animals like big cats, birds, and ...

Men have nipples, mammary glands and the hormones required, but the ability for male lactation rarely turns on. Here’s why ...

The ESA is investigating a fireball that streaked across the skies in Europe and damaged a house in Germany; scientists detect a spooky glow coming from trees during thunderstorms; bumblebee queens ...

Scientists have uncovered an enormous hidden archive of plant DNA that has endured for more than 400 million years. By comparing hundreds of plant genomes, researchers identified more than 2.3 million ...

To achieve this, Mueller transplants bacteria from one plant’s roots to a new generation’s seeds. With a gift of 50 seeds from Thomas Juenger, also a professor of integrative biology at UT, Mueller ...

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.

Researchers uncovered millions of ancient plant DNA switches—some older than flowering plants themselves—revealing a hidden evolutionary blueprint stretching back 400 million years. Most people have ...

If someone told you there’s a museum in Brooklyn dedicated entirely to bones, you’d probably assume they were joking or possibly describing a very niche restaurant. The Bone Museum is very real, very ...

A potted scarlet monkeyflower would die within a few days without water. But multiple natural populations of the species ...