Today (May 22) is United Nations International Day for Biological Diversity, drawing attention to a critical resource for ...

We set out to explore one of the strangest creatures living at the edge of land and sea - the mudskipper. In this episode, we look at how this fish walks on land, breathes air, and thrives where few ...

Today, biologists taking a closer look at the animals located inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ), which is about the ...

Different beak and jaw shapes are illustrative examples of how animal species have adapted to different food sources. In a ...

The peppered moth is an iconic example of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. For centuries peppered moths (Biston betularia) were common in the forests around Manchester, ...

When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or studied ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1950 the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi was discussing the possibility of intelligent alien life with his colleagues. If alien ...

The plan was simple. Make a quick stop at a geologic feature that would provide a real-world example of topics that were being discussed in my biology classes. The topic was evolution and I was ...

The language of the Greeks is a living organism that has endured millennia. Credit: Thomas Wolf, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA ...