Saliva is a bodily fluid most of us take for granted despite the significant roles it plays: aiding in digestion, maintaining ...

Don't be fooled by that soft-looking down and pretty faces – woodpeckers are tough, tree-pounding beasts who simultaneous ...

A new study reveals how woodpeckers combine breathing and whole-body coordination to drill into trees with extraordinary ...

Evolution isn’t just about biology — it’s about ideas, words, and culture. Richard Dawkins and John McWhorter break down how ...

The brain does not need its sophisticated cortex to interpret the visual world. A new study published in PLOS Biology ...

In a suspected case of reverse evolution, wild tomatoes in the Galápagos have developed a defense mechanism that hasn’t been seen in millions of years.

Exploring human infancy through the lens of primitive technology reveals surprising insights into biology and survival. From how early humans cared for newborns to the physical and developmental ...

From CRISPR to gene banking, synthetic biology has big implications for wildlife evolution and conservation, but ethical ...

Tree thinking is a pedagogical approach that emphasises the interpretation and construction of phylogenetic trees to elucidate evolutionary relationships. In the context of evolutionary biology ...

Scientists have developed a theoretical model that uncovers the dual role of polyploidy -- organisms carrying extra genome copies -- in evolution. Their findings reveal that polyploidy can stabilize ...