Human testicles are much smaller, in proportion, to some of our primate cousins. Evolution can tell us why. But the size of ...

A group of scientists studying pregnancy across six different mammals—from humans to marsupials—uncovered how certain cells at the mother-baby boundary have been working together for over 100 million ...

Scientists at RBG Kew and Queen Mary University of London have found evidence that young ash tree populations are evolving ...

Polyploidy, or whole-genome duplication (WGD), is a major mechanism of genome evolution across the tree of life and is ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

A recent study challenges the long-held belief that gorillas primarily live on the ground. Researchers discovered that ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, as well as Rocky Vista University (U.S.), show that ...

Touché. Here we go: recent science has discovered that tigers appear orange to humans because the vast majority of us are ...

DNA sequencing shows young trees are more likely to have gene variants that confer partial resistance to a fungus that has ...

Snakes climbing trees use significantly more force than necessary to grip, a strategy detailed in Biology Letters. This overcompensation, sometimes tr ...