Scientists compared genomes from 154 animal species and found that land animals share genetic tricks for surviving outside ...

Animals from completely different branches of the tree of life, such as insects, worms and vertebrates, independently evolved ...

Maybe you suspect there isn’t much to fish — and you could hardly be blamed for it. For centuries, Western natural philosophy ...

Animals from completely different branches of the tree of life such as insects, worms and vertebrates independently evolved similar genetic solutions to survive on land, according to a new study from ...

You’ve heard the slogans: save the whales, protect our pollinators. You may have lamented the decline of polar bears or the ...

Hospes in Latin means both a host and a guest. It’s a Janus word that reflects a reciprocal arrangement between not so much opposites as counterparts. Hospes gives us the word hospitality, which is ...

Learn about a fossil site in Transylvania that contains hundreds of vertebrate remains and was once an island full of dwarf dinosaurs.

For decades, biologists have warned that humanity is precipitating a sixth mass extinction. By some estimates, species are ...

The motivation behind everything that animals do is to stay alive, at least until they have produced offspring. Any species ...