A new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in ...

A reduced genome in an island species raises evolutionary questions.

For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – ...

A long-disputed rule in biology says bigger is better, but a new computer model illuminates why that’s not necessarily true. By Lauren Leffer Published Jan 18, 2024 11:45 AM EST Get the Popular ...

Learn how jellyfish and sea anemones are changing what we know about the evolutionary purpose of sleep.

The study blends math, statistics and biology to show that this long-held hyperbolic pattern is an anomaly because it doesn't account for the fact that all species on earth are defined as much by ...

Hyderabad scientists decoded the ‘Evolutionary GPS’ of mites and ticks, showing they belong to two independent groups. Using ...

Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences has officially voted to change the name of the Human Evolutionary Biology concentration during a meeting on April 1. Effective as of July 1, 2025 — when the ...

Plant species from certain geographic regions are more successful in spreading outside their native ranges than others -- but why? Ecologists provide answers by exploring how the ecological and ...