Birds fighting for nesting spots show repeated aggression and shared brain gene patterns, suggesting evolution may repeat.

Chimpanzees are often cast as a mirror to our darkest tendencies, embodying violence, territoriality and power struggles. In ...

New genomic analysis findings could help inform breeding efforts for apples that are tastier and more resilient. A ...

Chimpanzees are often cast as a mirror to our darkest tendencies, embodying violence, territoriality and power struggles. In ...

Recent findings indicate that dire wolves and gray wolves are distantly related, having diverged about 5.7 million years ago ...

Imagine a world hidden within the hollow stem of a plant—a bustling metropolis of ants, secret tunnels, nurseries, and an ...

Imagine a quiet forest in Australia, sunlight filtering through eucalyptus leaves, and a sleepy koala munching away. Now, ...

In the temperate forests of the Northern Hemisphere, a quiet but powerful story has been unfolding for nearly 60 million ...

the researchers built a family tree of the genus and then used biogeographical analysis to trace its origin to about 56 million years ago in Asia. "The evolutionary history of the genus is quite ...

Could aquatic mammals, such as whales, orcas, and bottlenose dolphins, ever evolve to live on land again? It seems the chances of this are actually vanishingly small, as the adaptations that allow ...

We uncovered a paradigmatic example of convergent evolution ... in genic regions and contribute to lower mutation rates. However, the evolution of these systems across the tree of life remains unknown ...