Anybody who has seen "Finding Nemo" knows about those captivating monsters of the sea: anglerfishes. Variously horrific or ...

“Inversions in the Malawi cichlid adaptive radiation show supergene-­like signs of adaptive evolution and repeated ...

How can you find where a river was after it's gone? Turns out, the answer might be in the aquatic citizens it left behind!

Learn how a flip in Earth's magnetic field may have caused changes in the radiation on our planet.

Kara M. Kelly Division Chief, Hematology/Oncology in the Department of Pediatrics Expertise: children and cancer, especially ...

The specialized arm that male octopuses use for mating is also a sensory organ that can detect the ovarian hormone progesterone, according to new ...

The specialized arm that male octopuses use for mating is also a sensory organ that can detect the ovarian hormone progesterone, according to new experiments conducted by Pablo Villar and colleagues.

Hidden within fish DNA are powerful genetic twists that may explain one of nature’s biggest mysteries: how new species form so quickly. In Lake Malawi, hundreds of cichlid fish species evolved at ...

A comparison with the environmental settings and biological adaptations of nearly 6,000 terrestrial mammalian species demonstrates the profound advantages of human cultural adaptations.

The Socotra archipelago, located in the Indian Ocean, has been referred to as the most alien place on Earth because of its ...

With almost a third of cacti species threatened with extinction, a new open-access database of cactus ecology and evolution ...

Researchers have created a method called optovolution that uses light to guide the evolution of proteins with dynamic behaviors. By engineering yeast cells so their survival depended on proteins ...