Urban fish evolve to part from country cousins
Human activity can be a driver of evolutionary adaptation.
Urbanisation is driving rapid evolutionary responses in some wild species of fish, researchers have found. In a pape...
Urbanisation is driving rapid evolutionary responses in some wild species of fish, researchers have found. In a pape...
What do archers have in common with fleas? A new study now has identified the common engineering principles that enab...
A recent journal paper argues that life did not originate on our planet, but arrived within comets and meteorites fal...
Examining the fossil record through the lens of evolutionary developmental biology may help scientists reassess the t...
Gene flow between Neanderthals and early modern humans may have been a one-way street, researchers have found. While...
New research on the evolutionary genetics of fungi reveals that the compound that makes some mushrooms ‘magic’ may ha...
A new study of the genetic make-up of ravens has revealed a startling and little-known side to evolution – “reverse s...
Do the bird: Queensland scientists studied how birds run in order to gain insights in dinosaur locomotion. Queensland...
Among the many things that we think make human beings special is our upright stance and two-legged gait, known as “bi...
In the Christian religion, the period known as Lent lasts for 40 days, winding up just before Easter, and involves ma...
Around the globe there are nine recognised families of cockroaches – and new research has found that they last shared...
In February of this year, scientists from Harvard University in the US announced their plans to create a live woolly ...