Turtles are among the longest-living animals on Earth, and some species go much beyond the average lifespans. While most ...

A study explores key aspects of gargalesis, such as why certain areas of the body are more sensitive, why children tend to be ...

Matt Ridley’s “Birds, Sex and Beauty” explores how mate choice and aesthetics drive evolution, blending lyrical nature writing with deep biological insight.

The Northern Territory's multicultural affairs minister has defended referencing Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and quoting Hitler's propaganda chief during a parliamentary debate about racism.

Some animals on Earth haven’t changed for millions of years, surviving extinctions, climate shifts, and even asteroid impacts. These evolutionary holdouts, often called “living fossils,” are walking ...

The Marines will practice Corps-level command and control, 21st-century foraging and air assault in a projection into the ...

Being able to adapt to your environment is critical to survival. That’s what Charles Darwin discovered when he developed the ...

Darwinian evolution says that complex systems arise through numerous successive, slight modifications that benefit the species' survival over many generations. However, we have shown that bacterial ...

As a group, carriers of recessive disorders are slightly less healthy and have a reduced chance of having offspring. This disadvantage is greatest for carriers of a recessive gene for intellectual ...

A column by Winona LaDuke, an Ojibwe writer and economist on Minnesota’s White Earth Reservation. She also is co-curator of ...

Many plants, and a few other organisms, can expedite diversification even further by doubling their number of chromosomes.

About 3.7 billion years ago, a string of naturally occurring amino—the same kind that astronomers have found in meteorites ...