Over millions of years, nature has reinvented the crab at least five separate times across various lineages of crustaceans in ...

The human body is eerily similar to a complex machine, with countless delicate parts. These parts range from the tiniest of ...

Biologists studying convergent evolution — the process where unrelated species develop similar traits — suggest that evolution under comparable pressures may produce familiar body plans even on ...

Scientists discover the key to how functions such as echolocation may evolve independently as different creatures adapt to ...

Scientists found that the magic behind so-called “magic mushrooms”—psilocybin, a psychedelic compound—has evolved at least ...

A Chinese research team from the Institute of Zoology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has uncovered a key mechanism ...

Chinese researchers use AI to uncover how different species independently evolve similar traits through convergent evolution.

A Chinese research team has uncovered a key mechanism explaining why different organisms independently evolve similar functions when adapting to similar environments, using an artificial intelligence ...

In a new study, scientists have shown that chemical receptors that plants use to recognize nitrogen-fixing bacteria have developed the same function independently on at least three separate occasions ...

Psilocybe cubensis grows worldwide in tropical and subtropical regions, including Central and South America, Southeast Asia, and Oceania. The mushroom prefers moist, fertilizer-rich soils and contains ...

ST. LOUIS – The Evolution Festival returns to Forest Park this weekend for its third consecutive year, featuring two days of live music, local foods and packed crowds. The festival returns on Saturday ...