“Once a population has achieved this evolvability, it seems like it didn’t get erased by future evolution,” Zaman said. This ...

Scientists employ deep learning to analyze and compare gene regulation across various cell types in human and chicken brains.

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

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

The Wallace Line divides species in Southeast Asia. A deep ocean trench prevents animal migration. Even flying birds rarely ...

A newly discovered fossil provides strong evidence that modern birds lived alongside dinosaurs. The 69-million-year-old skull ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

In this episode of Weekly podcast, we speak to three experts who study different ways that people are affecting how plants and animals evolve – and how humanity has become the single biggest driver of ...