The evolutionary paths that created snatching forelimbs in insects multiple times moved in a similar direction but didn't end ...

More than 200 million years ago, life on Earth was experimenting with new forms. The Triassic period gave rise to animals ...

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As I highlighted in a recent paper, an extraordinary range of adaptations have evolved in aquatic plants for life beneath the ...

Hidden beneath the water's surface is a botanical world that is among nature's most innovative and ecologically important.As I highlighted in a recent paper, an extraordinary range of adaptations have ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, octopuses have demonstrated an ability previously thought exclusive to vertebrates: using ...

Natural hallucinogens, such as psilocybin, mescaline, N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), and related compounds, have generally received attention for their ...

A new statistical study challenges one of archaeology's longest-standing assumptions, raising fresh questions about how North ...

In this week's Science for All newsletter, Divya Gandhi explains how ants, dolphins and birds use inter-species cooperation to survive ...

For decades, archaeologists have assumed that members of the Palaeoindian Clovis culture used a weapon called an atlatl to ...

How does a stripy tree snail hide from hungry birds? The Hypselostyla camelopardalis from the Philippines and Reinia variegata from Japan have both evolved a form of dynamic camouflage to survive.

The idea that octopuses might be aliens emerged from the theory of panspermia (Stelele 2018), according to which life on Earth is not entirely of terrestrial ...