From quantum computing to deep learning and ancient protein analysis, scientists are revolutionizing how we reconstruct the tree of life. Modern phylogenetic methods now merge molecular, morphological ...

For a quarter century, public health officials have spoken about bats with a kind of nervous shorthand. They are reservoirs ...

This important study probes the long-standing failure to resolve evolutionary relationships between the classical "spiralian" taxa - i.e., annelids, molluscs, brachiopods, platyhelminths and ...

Many scorpion species carry zinc and other heavy metals in their pincers and stingers, according to new research.

Only the truest of crabs move sideways. (Paul Starosta/Stone/Getty Images) As you may have heard via a barrage of internet ...

Bicharracosaurus dionidei, a newly discovered long-necked dinosaur species, is reshaping how scientists understand the ...

A Kurdish wildlife photographer has documented the first recorded sighting of the Shikra, scientifically known as Tachyspiza ...

Two miles beneath the Pacific Ocean, on a rocky outcrop off the coast of Alaska, a remotely operated vehicle’s camera locked ...

During the fall semester of 2025, I taught a graduate seminar entitled “Darwinian Thought and Society.” While teaching should ...

Research into human genomic diversity has a number of applications in biomedicine, evolution, and history. However, many ...