The chain catshark may look like any other shark in daylight, but under blue light, its skin glows neon green. Here’s a breakdown of this remarkable adaptation.

Geroscience examines the underlying biology of aging to delay chronic diseases and extend the healthy years of human life.

In Lake Malawi, hundreds of species of cichlid fish have evolved with astonishing speed, offering scientists a rare opportunity to study how biodiversity arises.

Evolution is perhaps the most extraordinary story ever told—a tale spanning billions of years that connects every living thing on Earth through an intricate ...

Scientists discover webbed feet in land animals, challenging common assumptions. This trait, initially for swimming, also ...

Research is shaking up how we think about evolution, suggesting there's a level of predictability influenced by genes and genetic history.

The natural and the social world shaped the evolution of each. Knowing whom to invite to dinner is as important as knowing ...

A potted scarlet monkeyflower would die within a few days without water. But multiple natural populations of the species ...

Wild scarlet monkeyflowers in California survived a historic drought by relying on a rapid evolution, marking the first time the process has been observed in the wild.

A nearly complete dinosaur skeleton discovered in Patagonia is helping scientists crack the mystery of alvarezsaurs, a bizarre group of bird-like dinosaurs. The fossil of Alnashetri cerropoliciensis ...

Researchers uncovered millions of ancient plant DNA switches—some older than flowering plants themselves—revealing a hidden evolutionary blueprint stretching back 400 million years. Most people have ...

The Amazon molly reproduces without sex. A genomic copy-and-paste trick called gene conversion may explain how it avoids evolutionary meltdown.