When the environment changes dramatically, animals from mollusks to crows can make big changes in their behavior that enable ...

Why do some species live for only weeks while others survive for centuries? Researchers at the Leibniz Institute on ...

Ducks with corkscrew penises, fish changing sex – what do we really know about sex and reproduction on Earth? Less than we ...

In his single season with Illinois, Domask started 38 games, finished second on the team in scoring (15.9), first in assists ...

Hidden within fish DNA are powerful genetic twists that may explain one of nature’s biggest mysteries: how new species form so quickly. In Lake Malawi, hundreds of cichlid fish species evolved at ...

Scientists have finally cracked a long-standing mystery about squid and cuttlefish evolution by analyzing newly sequenced ...

Xenarthrans constitute one of the most distinctive mammalian clades, with an evolutionary history deeply rooted in South America and a present-day ...

The fields of evolutionary, population, and conservation genetics are advancing rapidly, propelled by progress in high-throughput sequencing, spatial and ...

Rajiv McCoy is a newly tenured Associate Professor within the Department of Biology at Hopkins. He is renowned for his ...

The built and natural worlds around us are full of examples of diversity from small, incremental evolutionary changes. Keyboard designs offer slightly different key spacing and press stiffness; two ...

At the March meeting of the Westfield-Mayville Rotary Club, their guest presenter was Kristan McMahon, President of the Robert H. Jackson Center in Jamestown. So much history packed into one place.