When the environment changes dramatically, animals from mollusks to crows can make big changes in their behavior that enable ...

The human ability to cook may seem ordinary, but it marks one of the most important evolutionary turning points in our ...

In most cases, evolution is a pretty slow process, taking hundreds if not thousands of years—but when humans enter the picture, some animals have to evolve at light speed in order to survive in a ...

The transition from water to land is a question that still intrigues scientists. Those ancient organisms would have needed to ...

Sphen and Magic, two male Gentoo penguins, recently made headlines when they ‘adopted’ an egg. Gentoos are closely related to Adélie penguins, the species Levick first observed in 1911. After the two ...

Noses are usually something we take for granted. Breathing, smelling, maybe a sniff of a flower, that’s about it for most ...