A 150-million-year-old bird fossil, Zhengheornis, reveals the first step in the evolution of the short tails seen in modern ...

Long before the dawn of modern parenting, animals laid eggs and moved on, leaving their progeny to fend for themselves. Now, ...

The idea of ‘biological agency’ — that life devises its own goals and behaves accordingly — complicates our understanding of ...

Inherited retinal degenerations are a diverse group of genetic disorders that result in progressive vision loss. Advances in ...

Ask most people why a chicken exists, and they will describe eggs as something a chicken produces along the way. Richard ...

The Law of Senraquan to be released on 17 July is a new standalone novel marking the conclusion of a multi-layered ...

Is it possible to study the history of viruses that emerged several hundred million years ago? An international team of INRAE ...

Year 6 pupils at St Alban’s Catholic Primary School in Wallasey led a day of discovery and learning at their annual science ...

Why humans have a philtrum, the groove above your lip, explained by an evolutionary biologist — from embryonic face-building ...

In a trio of reported judgments the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands has granted relief under section 64A Trusts Act (2021 Revision) by unwinding mistaken exercises of fiduciary powers. Far from a ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...