Ecologists have long sought clarity on the dietary habits of different animal species. For scientists at Brown University and ...

As their name suggests, carrion beetles eat dead animals. These insects also lay their eggs on the deceased animals so their larvae can eat the meat when developing. But they aren't the only bugs ...

Caption: An Amur tiger licks another as visitors record the scene at the Calgary Zoo in 2013. Zoos and aquariums around the world need to focus more on conservation, rather than entertainment, to ...

Evolution keeps making crabs. In fact, it's happened so often that there's a special scientific term for an organism turning crab-like: carcinization. But how many times has it happened, and why? When ...

A type of zooplankton, Daphnia pulex (a.k.a. the water flea) is a microscopic crustacean whose unique reproduction habits ...

Mammals independently evolved similar inner ear shapes, showing convergence due to shared environmental pressures.

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction -- and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role, 'groundbreaking' new fossil research reveals. The discovery ...

When Charles Darwin first presented his Theory of Natural Selection in 1858, there was scant understanding about the ...

A new study reveals the surprisingly convergent evolution in the inner ear of mammals. An international research team showed that a group of highly divergent mammals known as Afrotheria and distantly ...

With lifespans stretching far beyond human comprehension, creatures like the hydra, Greenland shark and Aldabra tortoise ...

Protein structures predicted by artificial intelligence have charted the evolution of the virus family responsible for dengue ...