A duplicated gene evolved into a switch that determines sex in frogs, revealing how evolution can safely reshape critical ...

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have a unique resource in the form of the Center for Biomolecular ...

In most cases, evolution is a pretty slow process, taking hundreds if not thousands of years—but when humans enter the picture, some animals have to evolve at light speed in order to survive in a ...

Early in development, many animals pick a team—male or female—based on their genetics, and, with time, acquire the ...

Readers are spoiled for choice when it comes to popular science reading this month, with new titles by major names including Maggie Aderin and Michael Pollan ...

Octopuses break so many biological expectations that scientists still struggle to explain how they ended up this way through ...

The largest animal to ever exist pushes biological systems into dangerous territory. Its immense size creates hidden risks ...

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

Artificial intelligence allows tracing the evolution of genetic control elements in the developing mammalian cerebellum. An ...

Our genome isn’t as peaceful as it looks—some DNA elements are constantly trying to disrupt it. Scientists studying fruit ...

Why do humans have larger penises than other primates? New research tests attraction, rivalry, and sexual selection for ...

A large comparative study of primate teeth shows that grooves once linked to ancient human tooth-picking can form naturally, while some common modern dental problems appear uniquely human.