New research shows that a deeply ancient part of the brain can process visual information on its own, without help from the cortex. Scientists found that the superior colliculus, a structure shared by ...

This rainforest tree solved one of evolution’s hardest problems. Here’s how it evolved to use tension and geometry to fire ...

The classic thought experiment about a horse-sized duck and a hundred duck-sized horses is more than a joke. It captures a ...

The platypus is one of evolution's lovable, oddball animals. The creature seems to defy well-understood rules of biology by ...

A spider species found only on the Canary Islands is forcing scientists to rethink long-held assumptions about how evolution ...

When COVID-19 lockdowns emptied city streets, urban environments changed almost overnight. New research suggests that Los ...

Those who use their bodies to survey the boundaries.

During these waves of mass extinction, most vertebrate survivors were confined to refugia, or isolated biodiversity hotspots ...

Things changed in August 2025. After several children were mauled by street dogs, the country’s supreme court briefly ordered ...

A new study theorizes that evolution ticks at different speeds, especially when a big group of organisms first appears.

Red blood is the exception, not the rule. Evolution has painted it green, purple and white in animals that push physiology ...

Hyderabad: A new genomic study has shed fresh light on how mites and ticks evolved, and how parasitic species emerged over ...