The theory of a Yellow Shellos began with fan interpretations inspired by real-world marine organisms such as the scaly-foot ...

Fire salamanders—one of Europe's most well-researched amphibians—are biofluorescent, which means they can absorb light from ...

As it turns out, beneficial mutations are far more common than a 50-year-old theory predicted, but the world changes too fast ...

A discovery hidden inside 520-million-year-old rocks has solved an evolutionary enigma and could even rewrite the entire tree ...

Octopuses are remarkably intelligent creatures, as was demonstrated by Inky the Octopus’s famous escape from the National Aquarium of New Zealand through a drainpipe back to sea in 2016. A new ...

All-female species have been long thought of as evolutionary dead ends – but one fish has defied the odds to live without males, revealing new clues to how genomes stay healthy.

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have identified a previously unknown protein that may help explain how plants ...

Imagine slipping into a multiplayer VR version of Grand Theft Auto, racing cars against players scattered across the world.

A remarkable fossil hidden in a museum collection for decades is helping scientists rethink one of the biggest mysteries in ...

The Illustrated Story of Life, biologist Christian Sardet invites readers on a vivid journey to appreciate the origin and ...

Donald Hoffman’s interface theory claims space-time may be more like a VR dashboard than reality itself—and some physics may ...

There is a huge variety of life on Earth, but we sometimes see similarities in organisms that live in very different areas ...