The intricate roles of soil microorganisms in ecological processes such as organic matter decomposition, nutrient cycling, ...

Bees may hold the secret to communication with aliens, scientists find - Honeybees can solve simple addition and subtraction ...

A spider species that has gone in reverse during evolution has left scientists stumped. This Dysdera tilosensis has reduced ...

New research shows that a deeply ancient part of the brain can process visual information on its own, without help from the cortex. Scientists found that the superior colliculus, a structure shared by ...

This rainforest tree solved one of evolution’s hardest problems. Here’s how it evolved to use tension and geometry to fire ...

The platypus is one of evolution's lovable, oddball animals. The creature seems to defy well-understood rules of biology by ...

When COVID-19 lockdowns emptied city streets, urban environments changed almost overnight. New research suggests that Los ...

Those who use their bodies to survey the boundaries.

During these waves of mass extinction, most vertebrate survivors were confined to refugia, or isolated biodiversity hotspots ...

Ushikuvirus, an amoeba-infecting giant virus, joins the family of giant viruses that may have driven the evolution of complex ...

A new study theorizes that evolution ticks at different speeds, especially when a big group of organisms first appears.

Red blood is the exception, not the rule. Evolution has painted it green, purple and white in animals that push physiology ...