Evolutionary Biology

Representative Image (AI-generated) Its appearance told one story; its DNA tells another. For decades, the extinct Miracinonyx trumani…

Red meat has played an important role in human diets for millions of years, providing concentrated nutrients that…

Spotting a spider web stretching from one side to the other seems impossible, yet this is exactly what…

The Andean leaf-eared mouse has the same kind of muscle tissue as a marathon runner, one of multiple…

The uvula, a sturcture hanging from a part of the body people rarely think about, turns out to…

Plot and environmental data We retrieved 1,903,668 vegetation plots and 40,468,042 observation records from the European Vegetation Archive…

Senior, R. A. et al. Global shortfalls in documented actions to conserve biodiversity. Nature 630, 387–391 (2024). Article …

Experiments on comb jelly embryos reveal that a core developmental process shared across animals may trace back to…

Braga Goncalves, I., Morris-Drake, A., Kennedy, P. & Radford, A. N. Fitness consequences of outgroup conflict. eLife 11,…

From tracking invisible scent plumes on the wind to navigating a rapidly warming Arctic, the polar bear reveals…

Following recent innovations in the field of environmentally adjusted sovereign credit risk analysis31,56, a random forest classification model…

The box jellyfish is famous for its venom, but its bizarre collection of 24 eyes may be even…

For decades, scientists thought North America had its own cheetah; ancient DNA reveals the extinct cat split from the puma lineage 2.6 million years ago