Nature cradles many miracles in its embrace, even in the way of forming partnerships that define entire branches of life over ...

The history of all living things is examined through five key species chosen for the way they move, feed and reproduce and ...

Evolution, a new five-part series tells the extraordinary story of how life on Earth has changed over more than four billion ...

Ethological studies of animal sentience are critical because they focus on wild animals displaying flexibility and adapting ...

A study of fossil teeth from China shows early mammals got bigger before their diets became specialized after the ...

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Exceptionally preserved fossils from China reveal that bryozoans were already thriving during the Cambrian explosion.

A study of chimps, gorillas and other great apes, including human children, sheds light on how laughter has evolved.

“Love makes fools of all of us,” wrote 19th-century novelist William Makepeace Thackeray. A moment spent watching the pigeons at your local park suggests he was right: males with puffed-up, shimmering ...

Scientists have found that a shift towards sexual reproduction did more than create genetic diversity – it may have been one of the key innovations that transformed life on Earth from a world of ...

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In the 1960s, Kimura’s neutral theory revolutionized molecular biology by arguing most DNA changes are random, not adaptive. A new study finds beneficial mutations are far more common than Kimura’s ...