Today, we’re covering convergent evolution, a common term in science fields. While it is a complicated term, it’s relatively easy to understand when you look at some of the more key examples.

Nature is a master of design, but it doesn’t always get things right. In this eye-opening video, we explore a list of animals ...

Color and iridescence in the animal kingdom. ... that rainbow shimmer coming off of a soap bubble–is an example of structural ... species could be the latest feathery clue to bird evolution.] ...

Birds in the forest experienced very low ambient light levels at night (an average of 0.00006 lux); birds in Munich were exposed to much brighter nighttime environments (an average of 0.2 lux).

The fossil skeleton of a newly discovered dinosaur species was found in a pose suggesting it slept like modern birds. This sleeping behavior may have been more common than expected among non-avian ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the diverse ways animals extract oxygen from air, from the highly tuned lungs that enabled ...

Hoarding, in the animal kingdom, is a strategy that has been perfected over millions of years. It is not just a survival ...

This means that, contrary to birds, bats' forelimbs and hindlimbs did not evolve independently: When the wing shape changes—either increases or shrinks, for example—the leg shape changes in ...

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The fossil of a Jurassic bird unearthed in southeastern China has major implications for the history of avian evolution, researchers say.. The newly discovered Baminornis zhenghensis, a quail ...