A unique fossil discovery in Brazil provides new insights into bird brain evolution, while a study highlights drastic ...

New research is shaking up how we think about evolution, suggesting there's a level of predictability influenced by genes and ...

The emergence of new viruses is often unpredictable, jumping as they might from infecting one species to another. A November ...

In this striking study, science writer Black (The Last Days of the Dinosaurs) presents vignettes illustrating the complex ...

Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird's brain took shape over ...

The earliest cells likely didn’t have membranes to separate and protect their components and chemistry away from a harsh surrounding environment ... in the journal Science Advances, my ...

Survival of the fittest’ is Darwin 101. But did you know that Charles Darwin didn’t actually coin that phrase? Let’s explore ...

The Evolution of Green Energy Technology ... allow turbine engines to run hotter -- with potential dividends for the environment and ... With 'Electro-Agriculture,' Plants Can Produce Food ...

Yet, for more than 10,000 years, Tibetan women living on the high Tibetan Plateau have not only survived but thrived in that environment ... the processes of human evolution." ...

The argument is detailed in a paper published October 30 in the Cell Press journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution. “We’re ...

Analyzing these patterns could offer insights into language evolution and applications in understanding alien languages or ...

In the new study, the team describes this well-preserved fossil tadpole. It belongs to the species Notobatrachus degiustoi and dates back about 168 to 161 million years to the Middle Jurassic. Most ...