The “one-of-a-kind” fossil of Navaornis hestiae helps fill a giant gap in scientists’ understanding of how bird brains ...

"The Grand Canyon is an epic Rosetta Stone for geology," Denver Museum of Nature and Science geologist James Hagadorn said.

Both Hung and Neff discussed the deep branches of the evolutionary history of bees with Bossert and realized ... the way this ...

The brains of today's birds facilitate a level of cognitive prowess and behavioral complexity rivaled only by mammals. But ...

The entries emphasize chance’s prominent role in evolution. For instance, Black imagines a saber-toothed cat chowing down on ...

Coelacanths are strange fish that are currently only known from two species found along the East African coast and in ...

A new study from the University of Arizona reveals that color vision in animals evolved around 500 million years ago, much ...

Scientists debunked a widely accepted mass extinction of 90 plant species in Ecuador’s Centinela cloud forests in the 1980s, ...

Can we protect the 5,000-year legacy of medicinal plants and their multi-billion-dollar market value from climate change?

Here, the authors report their evolution and link life history, diversification, comparative genomic, and functional changes to processes underlying the unique biology of air plants. Unlike most ...

Experts have revealed the origins of a unique DNA duplication mechanism that grants plants additional ways to control genetic instructions.

Pando, a massive forest in Utah, is confirmed to be between 16,000 and 80,000 years old, making it one of Earth's oldest living organisms.