Did you know convergent evolution is quite common?
It turns out humans aren’t the only ones checking out what their neighbors are doing when looking for ideas on...
Sea stars overcome melting disease through rapid evolution
Five years ago, millions of sea stars off the west coast of North America were killed by a mysterious virus that...
How scaly dinosaurs turned into feathery birds - new gene study offers clues
Dinosaurs no longer roam the planet - unless you count birds. Recent discoveries have revealed many dinosaurs once...
Lilium's all-electric flying taxi could travel from Manhattan to JFK in 5 minutes
A startup from Germany has secured $90 million to build the all-electric flying taxi of the future. Albeit still...
Plants use sound to find water and survive, new research shows
Many people believe that playing music to plants makes them grow better, but scientists would say that's absurd....
Research suggests humans emerged 2.8M years ago amid major climate change event
Mystery still shrouds much of the story of our origins, but new Arizona State University (ASU) research sheds new...
Octopuses and their cephalopod cousins can edit and recode their own genes
Octopuses have earned a reputation as clever aquatic escape artists. But in addition to being underwater Houdinis,...
We might be descended from this horrifying sea creature with no anus
If you're looking for new nightmare fuel beyond, oh we don't know, the dissolution of democracy as we know it,...
Tasmanian Devils are rapidly evolving to fight cancer
In the quest to conquer cancer, scientists have turned to the natural world for effective solutions. In this case,...
New 'Hobbit' fossils provide a glimpse into human relative
With the discovery of a tooth here or a bone fragment there, archaeologists piece together the history of humanity...
Did our limbs evolve from gills?
In the search to discover our origins, scientists have suggested many ideas that range from far-fetched to fascinating....
Walking fish unlike any other on Earth discovered in Thailand
Researchers from the New Jersey Institute of Technology have discovered a strange new species of fish in the caves...
New map shows where large mammals would exist without humans
How would the world look if humans had never spread out across the Earth? For a start, we'd have a lot more forest,...
Did scientists just discover a new kind of ancient human?
Researchers recently discovered a fossilized jawbone that could have belonged to a new type of prehistoric human....
Will Rats Become Earth's New Overlords After the Next Mass Extinction?
When humans are eradicated from the planet, rats may become Earth's new overlords. At least, that’s the result...
