Though natural selection favours self-interest, humans are extraordinarily good at cooperating with one another. Why?

More than 500 exceptionally preserved fossils are offering new clues about the evolution of Florida's animals and landscape.

New University of Otago—Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka research shows Aotearoa has been increasingly accepting new bird species from ...

Picture a primordial Earth: a world of muted browns, greys and greens. Fast forward to today, and Earth teems with a ...

In the middle of Southeast Asia, where the lush jungles of Borneo and Sulawesi meet the tropical waters of the Pacific, lies ...

A new UC study has looked at the evolutionary significance of super genes and their potential role in species survival.

Picture a primordial Earth: a world of muted browns, grays and greens. Fast forward to today, and Earth teems with a ...

We often talk about water and how important it is to make sure it is clean and unpolluted. But lakes usually fall through the ...

In a new study published in Science, a Belgian research team explores how genetic switches controlling gene activity define brain cell types across species.

Any animal’s eye color is determined by its levels of two melanin pigments: eumelanin, which makes brown-black, and ...

A single gene in the shorebird species known as ruffs controls the levels of testosterone in males, and this in turn affects ...