Biologists say there’s more to your favourite flowers than just beauty. Their different colours, petal shapes and scents are ...

Comparing the mechanics of snail shells and ant mandibles provides clues about why there are shell fragments in ants’ garbage ...

It’s often said we’ve transcended our biological constraints and stopped evolving, but that’s simply not ...

Scientists retrieved proteins from six teeth unearthed in China that reveal a potential link between Homo erectus and later ...

It is one of the strangest puzzles in human evolution. About 90% of people across every human culture favor their right ...

The exact relationships between all these early human relatives are still a bit murky. It could be that H. erectus is ...

Scientists have uncovered compelling evidence that dinosaur fossils may still contain traces of their original proteins, ...

Across the planet, animals are increasingly suffering from chronic illnesses once seen only in humans. Cats, dogs, cows, and even marine life are facing rising rates of cancer, diabetes, arthritis, ...

Researchers have successfully regenerated skeletal and connective tissue, although the new tissue was not perfectly formed.

The fields of motor control and cognitive psychology have been traditionally separate, but research has fundamentally reshaped this distinction. We now ...

Somewhere in the western Pacific, on reefs near New Caledonia sampled during the Tara Pacific expedition, a fist-sized colony ...