The octopus is one of the most extreme animals on Earth. Its biology looks more like science fiction than natural evolution.

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Biologists are closing in on a puzzle that seems to turn classic evolutionary logic inside out, yet may be so common that it ...

Microbes often display cooperative behavior in which individual cells put in work and sacrifice resources to collectively ...

Environmental change doesn’t affect evolution in a single, predictable way. In large-scale computer simulations, scientists ...

“Expression tells us what cells do, but regulatory DNA tells us where they come from, how they develop, and which germ layer ...

Domestic pigeons have surprising cultural significance. They inspired Charles Darwin in his thinking about evolution, ...

The conservation of genome regulatory elements over long periods of evolution is not limited to vertebrates, as previously ...

Flash forward 10 years and Sivakumar had become an integrative biology major paid to conduct groundbreaking research into how ...

A newly evolved, aggressive “Hulk” wall lizard is spreading out from the Rome region — and researchers are watching a million-year stable system unravel in real time. From three morphs to one: Across ...

All living things must survive in environments that are constantly changing. Seasons shift from summer to winter, and weather patterns can swing from ...

A new study from Northwestern University is reshaping how scientists think about brain evolution. The research suggests that ...