In most cases, evolution is a pretty slow process, taking hundreds if not thousands of years—but when humans enter the ...

Red does not make bulls angry. Science shows they react to movement, not colour, debunking myths and revealing how instinct, ...

Bite force, a measure of the strength of an animal's bite, helps researchers understand a species' role in the ecosystem.

Human evolution is explained through branching lineages rather than a simple linear progression. Fossils, genetics, and archaeology together reveal how multiple human species emerged, interacted, and ...

In the forests, grasslands, and tropical forests, wild animals often encounter naturally fermented food. Natural fermentation ...

Some ants thrive by choosing numbers over strength. Instead of heavily protecting each worker, they invest fewer resources in ...

“Expression tells us what cells do, but regulatory DNA tells us where they come from, how they develop, and which germ layer ...

Researchers find Apennine brown bears evolved into a smaller, less aggressive animal after centuries of coexistence with ...

Some animal abilities are so unusual that science still can’t explain how they work. These are real, well-documented behaviors that continue to surprise researchers. Even with advanced tools and ...

A biologist explains the surprising evolutionary math behind how the blue whale became the largest animal that has ever lived ...

With no humans to leave behind scraps, this urban bird evolved and developed a longer beak, which shrank again once people ...

A curious and paradoxical intolerance for lactose across the South Asian subcontinent could help explain why the ability for ...