A new study argues that religion, politics and war affect how animals and plants in cities evolve, and the confluence of ...

“It may be doubted,” Darwin wrote, “if there are any other animals which have played such an important part in the history of the world as these lowly organized creatures.” ...

Research shows wild animal fights can carry long-term costs - affecting survival, reproduction, and even shaping species ...

Researchers found that the animals are capable of using their trunks to make a range of gestures that express their ...

Ambitious projects aim to put dire wolves, woolly mammoths and passenger pigeons back into our ecosystems. But with so many technical and ethical hurdles, what is the real motivation?

The Cambrian Explosion is a landmark moment in the history of life on Earth when many of the major groups of animals first ...

Researchers from the University of Sydney have developed a system that mimics natural selection inside living mammalian cells ...

Researchers have described proteins that they say are among the most ancient ever sequenced. Two teams, which analysed ...

BiomEdit has raised an $18.4m Series B round and is gearing up to launch its first product, a designer probiotic to tackle necrotic enteritis ...

By using a genetic technique developed at UT Southwestern Medical Center that forces cells to rid themselves of mitochondria, ...

Human testicles are much smaller, in proportion, to some of our primate cousins. Evolution can tell us why. But the size of other body parts is a little bit more of a mystery.