As soon as the first ever flowers unfurled from their buds in the early Cretaceous period, they were visited by pollinators.

When someone you love dies, many people find that the process of maintaining and tending to their grave is part of the ...

This fungus was either hitchhiking from fruit to fruit on the proboscis of these bugs, or else the bugs' piercings were simply making it easier for the fungus to infiltrate the flesh. In any event ...

Galdikas has cataloged about 400 types of fruit, flowers, bark, leaves and insects that wild orangutans ... But there were bearcats, gibbons, a proboscis monkey, even six crocodiles." ...

Understanding the material basis of adaptive evolution has been a central goal in biology dating back to at least the time of ...

Scientists report adaptive divergence in cryptic color pattern is underlain by two distinct, complex chromosomal rearrangements, where millions of bases of DNA were flipped backwards and moved from ...

In Antarctica's freezing depths, tiny creatures have mastered survival tactics that could unlock secrets to extreme cold resistance, with implications for science and medicine. Some of the most ...

While rare, a few birds we studied were rule-breakers. One such rule-breaker is the Eurasian spoonbill, whose highly ...

To draw such remarkable conclusions, the scientists analyzed genomes across various beetle species. Through this research, they discovered that the rove beetle has maintained its tergal gland for over ...

Understanding the material basis of adaptive evolution has been a central goal in biology dating back to at least the time of ...