At a conference in Washington, D.C., in 2000, the secretoglobin super family of proteins was named to classify proteins with ...

Emotions can hijack logic, and rationality can suppress feelings. At times, these forces engage in an evolutionary standoff.

Microorganisms—defined as very small living beings, invisible to the naked eye, comprising bacteria, fungi, viruses or others ...

The internet's latest absurd obsession is: who would win in a no-rules fight between 100 average human men and one adult male ...

Professor Emily Jane McTavish and colleagues at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have mapped the evolution of every known bird ...

Yet, from an evolutionary standpoint, it’s far more plausible that female-like organisms preceded males, especially considering that asexual reproduction—the earliest known mode of ...

Researchers have combined decades of scientific data, tracing how all birds are related. This provides an evolutionary map ...

Since the evolutionary split, humans and gorillas have followed very different paths. Gorillas have adapted to dense forests and mountainous terrains, while humans have evolved to live in the open ...

We may have gotten the evolutionary origins of the echidna backward, as new research suggests its ancestors probably lived in ...