Evolution is hard to model mathematically, but a new study may have found a way to do just that with some inspiration from an ...

When we think of lead poisoning, most of us imagine modern human-made pollution, paint, old pipes, or exhaust fumes.

University of Michigan professor Alison Davis Rabosky decided years ago that if ever offered a museum leadership role, she ...

Male spotted ratfish have true teeth on a forehead appendage used for mating. Across vertebrates, teeth share many defining ...

Over a few million years, the spider Dysdera tilosensis—a species endemic to the Canary Islands—has reduced the size of its ...

Naked mole-rats seem to have found nature’s cheat code for longevity. Scientists discovered that small tweaks in one of their ...

Wiemann combines tools from chemistry, biology, and geology to explore ecological and evolutionary questions about life on ...

Scientists have developed a theoretical model that uncovers the dual role of polyploidy -- organisms carrying extra genome copies -- in evolution. Their findings reveal that polyploidy can stabilize ...

The study of early vertebrates provides an essential window into the evolutionary processes that shaped modern biodiversity. Fossil discoveries spanning the Silurian to Devonian periods reveal a ...

A new study on canine development found that dogs exposed to adversarial events, including abuse and abandonment, in the ...

The theory of evolution by natural selection was first formulated in Darwin’s book “On the Origin of Species” in 1859. It describes how organisms change over time as a result of changes in heritable ...

Anurag Agrawal, an ecology and evolutionary biology professor at Cornell University, gave a talk about monarch butterflies and the ecological disasters that they highlight in the University of ...