Evolution rarely hits delete. Instead, it leaves behind living relics built for animals that no longer exist. Avocados are one of them.

A visionary evolutionary biologist, he drew comparisons to Charles Darwin with his theories on the genetic roots of seemingly ...

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

For decades, ever since biologists recognized the potential environmental harms from climate change, they have worried that ...

Understanding Core Robotics Concepts So, what exactly is robotics? At its heart, it’s a field where engineering ...

Evolution is biology's powerful method of engineering. It works by generating many variants of DNA, RNA, and proteins inside cells and letting nature "select" the organism that performs best. Early ...

Survival of the fittest. Nature red in tooth and claw. The common view of natural selection is based solely on the individual: A trait allows an organism to out-compete its rivals and is thus passed ...

In the long shadow of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, life appears to have bounced back with surprising speed. A new analysis of sedimentation rates suggests that the first wave of marine ...

University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) provide funding as members of The Conversation UK. An upside-down jellyfish drifts in a shallow lagoon, rhythmically contracting its ...

Dark-eyed junco songbirds have been serenading the University of California, Los Angeles campus for decades as they forage for food. The species from the sparrow family is not usually found in cities.