New research reveals how parrots and finches develop their extraordinary colours – and shows that evolution is an ongoing ...

They can climb onto other animals to drink their blood, pluck insects from leaves or hover to drink nectar from tropical ...

The earliest use of bright colors in animals served as a warning system, a strategy seen in venomous snakes and poison dart frogs.

Nov. 1, 2024 — New research has found that, unlike birds, the evolution of bats' wings and legs is tightly coupled, which may have prevented them from filling as many ecological niches as ...

Survival of the fittest’ is Darwin 101. But did you know that Charles Darwin didn’t actually coin that phrase? Let’s explore ...

While animals already have the genes needed to degrade ethanol before yeasts began producing it, there is some evidence that ...

The detection of H5N1 avian influenza (bird flu) in a pig on an Oregon farm has again raised concerns specifically among ...

A University of Arizona study found color vision evolved in animals 500 million years ago, far earlier than colorful plants.

Today's ecologists have more data than ever before to help monitor and understand the world's biodiversity. Yet researchers ...

Certainly, the evidence for change is everywhere. As the planet warms, species’ ranges are shifting and their life cycles are ...

Many real-life animals known as hematophages that sustain themselves on blood for a more practical reason — survival. Some hematophages are well-known: For example ... of other birds if ...

This week, researchers hypothesized that human culture is distinguished from cultures of other species like whales by unique ...