The most comprehensive dataset of termite genomes to date was created by an international team of scientists, led by ...

A study in fruit flies suggests an internal genomic arms race may be driving rapid evolution in proteins that still perform an essential, unchanging job: protecting chromosome ends.

A major evolutionary theory says most genetic changes don’t really matter, but new evidence suggests that’s not true. Researchers found that helpful mutations happen surprisingly often. The twist is ...

Some ants thrive by choosing numbers over strength. Instead of heavily protecting each worker, they invest fewer resources in ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

Humans evolved for sunlight, movement, and wild landscapes, but industrial life has changed too fast for our biology to keep ...

The king cobra occupies a singular position in the natural world-one defined not just by its biology but also by an unlikely ...

Bed bugs did not become a modern problem by accident. Over thousands of years, they evolved alongside humans, slowly adapting ...

Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But ...

At the bottom of the world’s trenches, there’s a fish that shouldn’t exist. Here’s how it earned the title of the ...

F lat-headed cats have been successfully detected and filmed in southern Thailand for the first time in almost 30 years. One ...