Scientists have ranked all known flowering plants and found that more than 20% of their evolutionary history is now at risk ...

A UW-led research team uncovered the fossil of a 75-million-year-old mammal that was roughly the size of a golden hamster, ...

You may not know that our ancestors hibernated during the winter months. Why did we evolve out of this biologically prolific ...

A new study in Proceedings of the Royal Society B reveals the surprising neurological landscape of fish brains. Harvard ...

The bird retina is one of the most energetically expensive tissues in the animal kingdom, yet it doesn’t use the energy ...

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A scientific study says climate change could erase thousands of plant species as habitats vanish and warming reshapes ...

Primates appear to show one of the most diverse and complex ranges of colorations of mammalian groups. The so-called blue monkey ( Cercopithecus mitis) has, like other mammals with its name – blue ...

Tiny, tooth-sized fossils have just reshaped the story of our deepest ancestry. Paleontologists have discovered the southernmost remains ever found of Purgatorius—the earliest-known relative of all ...