Ancient animal history is extremely difficult to reconstruct, for a number of reasons. Some of the earliest creatures in existence were soft-bodied and microscopic, leaving behind very little ...

A study warns that new pathogens could cause pandemics more likely than known viruses, shifting the focus of scientific research ...

The transition from water to land is a question that still intrigues scientists. Those ancient organisms would have needed to ...

Flower nectar contains small amounts of alcohol, and animals like hummingbirds and bees consume it daily without harm.

As the science fiction author publishes the latest novel in his Children of Time series, Children of Strife, he talks to ...

Despite their incredible success, ammonites died out at the end of the Cretaceous in the same mass extinction that killed the ...

Three hundred million years ago, dragonfly-like creatures with wingspans stretching 70 centimeters patrolled the skies of a world nothing like our own. These griffinflies, as paleontologists call ...

Great apes are among the most intelligent and powerful animals on Earth, but not all of them use that power in the same way.

The whites of your eyes are not an accident. They are, scientists now believe, one of the most sophisticated social ...

This bizarre-looking fish may seem otherworldly, but every part of its design solves a real problem: how to see, hunt and ...

In "How Flowers Made Our World," magnolia blossoms offer a glimpse into the evolutionary history and global takeover of ...

A new study shows evidence of “evolutionary rescue”—a kind of rapid evolution in which organisms genetically adapt to severe ...