With this new information, we can better reconstruct the last 1,500 years of horse breeding history and evolution," said ...

Researchers at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (VMBS) are helping uncover new ...

Microorganisms—bacteria, viruses and other tiny life forms—may drive biological variation in visible life as much, if not ...

Scientists have identified Uncus dzaugisi, the oldest ecdysozoan fossil from the Precambrian period, confirming long-held ...

Darwin’s Finches on Daphne Major Island, New Edition,” by evolutionary biologists Peter Grant and Rosemary Grant is the ...

Found in southern Germany, the fossil is notable for being nearly complete and preserved in three dimensions—a rarity in ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of penguin from fossils found in New Zealand. The penguin, named Pakudyptes ...

It is why life takes "such endless forms most beautiful and wonderful," as British biologist Charles Darwin wrote in his famous 1859 book "On the Origin of Species." You can thank evolution for the ...

A collection of over 40,000 trees in rural Utah is the world’s largest single organism, having all descended from a single ...

However, a new study from the University of Geneva suggests that the egg could in fact predate all animal life. A ...

Male pregnancy is a rare phenomenon in the animal kingdom, with just three vertebrates exhibiting this behavior. The seahorse ...

Researchers at the University of Oklahoma discovered a new species of mining bee, Andrena androfovea, in Oklahoma and Texas.