Scientists stalking a small marsupial through the rainforest may have found a clue to the mystery of why its bigger kangaroo ...

Goosebumps reveal your body's ancient survival instincts. Discover why your skin reacts to cold, fear, and even music.

Elena Bridgers told Newsweek that no one talks about the parental pressures that come with having children close in age.

Nyctophobia, or an extreme fear of darkness, affects both children and adults, often stemming from past trauma, anxiety ...

A vestigial trait is something that an organism has that once served a purpose that over time and the course of evolution has ceased to be useful. We see it in goosebumps, which were more effective ...

A fossil unearthed in the Middle Atlas Mountains of Morocco is now officially the oldest-known plant-eating cerapodan ...

The blue-headed quail dove is a uniquely ancient species with no close relatives and is now on the brink of extinction. At ...

This is one of the weirdest mysteries of human evolution: Why do we have grandmas? From menopause to our slow maturation and super-long lifespans, humans are quite unique in the animal ...

Millions of years ago, a group of adventurous iguanas, probably from Mexico, crossed the Pacific Ocean to Fiji on giant rafts ...

A new study examines cancer prevalence across hundreds of vertebrate species. Every multicellular creature, whether soaring ...

Feb. 26, 2025 — It's not what you do, it's how readily you do it. Rapid evolutionary change might have more to do with how easily a key innovation can be gained or lost rather than with the ...

Evolutionary biology is a subdiscipline of the biological sciences concerned with the origin of life and the diversification and adaptation of life forms over time. This Review explores the ...