Eukaryogenesis occurred suddenly, driven by the growing length of genes and the limitations on producing longer proteins. An ...

Vine snakes refer to several genera of snakes in the family Colubridae. They include Oxybelis, a genus of New World vine ...

In the earliest hours after fertilization, an embryo takes its first steps toward becoming a living organism by shedding ...

Shape matters as well as size in the great range of male frog show-off equipment for competitive seductive serenades.

A universal snake antivenom might soon be within reach—thanks to one man’s strange and dangerous obsession. For nearly two ...

With AI, “we are in the process not of re-creating human biology,” said Thomas Naselaris, a neuroscientist at the University ...

Humans surprisingly share a significant portion of their DNA with diverse life forms, from chimpanzees (98.8%) and bonobos ...

They created a complete evolutionary tree of bird species by combining data on 9,239 species published in nearly 300 studies between 1990 and 2024 and additional curated data on another 1,000 species.

Studies in neuroscience with applications to humans offer clues about what makes us start eating, and when we stop.

Scientists just inserted a human gene into mice ... in genetic expression could impact the evolution of communication—and perhaps even behavior—within a species. Expression pattern of NOVA1 in the ...

New research published in the Journal of Animal Ecology uncovers the surprisingly complex mating behaviour of wild male house mice. The study, led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for ...

That’s how we went from our little mint plant Eight, to a 150-year-old horse chestnut tree in Morden Hall Park. “But beyond scale, the real experiment was this: What happens when you give an LLM an ...