190 years ago Charles Darwin stepped ashore in Falmouth at the end of a five year voyage that would transform the way in which we all think about nature. But how does his work and that of his fellow ...

Birds possess key neural and behavioral markers suggesting consciousness is more widespread in animals than previously ...

Recent advances in botanical sciences have highlighted the significance of understanding the evolutionary and biogeographic processes underlying ...

A newly identified crocodile relative from Egypt pushes back the origins of the marine-hunting dyrosaurids by millions of years. The fossil, Wadisuchus kassabi, shows a mix of primitive and advanced ...

Humanity isn't evolving fast enough for the tech we're building. The AI singularity approaches—and our adaptation gap is the ...

A major milestone has been reached, with experts across Europe, including those at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK, sequencing 1,000 species of butterflies and moths. This includes ...

Abstract: Time delay is inevitable in information communication. Switched time delay, as a time-varying delay, plays an important role in information interaction between agents. In this article, ...

In the river terraces of central China’s Hubei Province, a fossilized skull once dismissed as too crushed for meaningful ...

A tiny 242-million-year-old fossil from Devon is shaking up scientists’ assumptions about the earliest members of the lizard lineage. Instead of the expected skull hinges and palate teeth typical of ...

What happens when a species is the only of its kind? This phenomenon is called a monospecific taxon. Studying these special ...

By redefining aging as an evolutionary achievement, Gurven challenges a youth-obsessed culture to see the later decades of ...

How far back in evolutionary history does kissing go? Through phylogenetic analysis, an international team of scientists ...