Humans have undoubtedly bred cats to create certain breeds, but did any of these feline breeds emerge naturally?

In the Himalayan forests, the satyr tragopan performs one of the bird world’s most dramatic courtship displays.

Corrales, a recent biological sciences Ph.D. graduate from the University of Rhode Island, and his advisor, Associate ...

For well over a century, Darwin’s theory of natural selection has served as biology’s grand unifying framework, explaining how species adapt and evolve through the differential replication of randomly ...

Take a good look at what you’re seeing above — these bizarre, bent paperclip-looking objects don’t look like much, and chances are you don’t know what you’re staring at. But the middle one, named ...

Daphnia pulex (a.k.a. the water flea) is a microscopic crustacean whose unique reproduction habits make it the perfect species for studying evolution and natural selection. A new study looks at how ...

Long before DNA unraveled the double helix of life, scientists were already tinkering with its inheritance. The idea that traits could be passed from one generation to the next fascinated early ...

The Indigenous peoples of the Bolivian highlands are survivors. For thousands of years they have lived at altitudes of more than two miles, where oxygen is about 35 percent lower than at sea level.

Abstract: This study introduces a novel approach to example selection in few-shot learning scenarios for dialog intent classification, leveraging logistic regression to refine the set of examples ...

The inaugural Natural Selection Surf is officially a wrap, with Australians Milla Coco Brown and Soli Bailey emerging as the first-ever champions. An electric two-day showdown in Micronesia’s ...

Most of us know that as living things evolve, they take on traits that help them thrive in their home environments. But how are certain traits "chosen" for future generations, and how are others cast ...