Captive tigers in the United States outnumber those living in the wild. The World Wildlife Federation estimates around 5,000 ...

A new study published in Genome Biology and Evolution found links between the DNA of ancient hominids called Neanderthals and ...

a paleoanthropologist from Harvard University's Department of Human Evolutionary Biology. (Alex is also a regular Discover contributor.) Most fossil remains from the period are fragmentary, with parts ...

But to the authors of the paper, the takeaway is clear. Michael Worobey, head of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary ...

Where do new genes come from? That's the question a team of biological sciences researchers from the U of A set out to answer ...

It’s a bug you’ve probably never heard of before, but it’s a pretty good bet you can find them right in your backyard.

Biological scientists at the U of A propose a new model for understanding how new genes and novel functions can originate through recycling and innovation of “junk.” ...

A Mississippi State biologist has discovered a new parasitic wasp species that uniquely targets adult flies, a scientific ...

The Philosophical Corner is a monthly column dedicated to the exposure and discussion of philosophy. In the battle of existential ideas, there exists two entities: free will and determinism. Due to ...

Experimental evolution is the use of laboratory or controlled field manipulations to investigate evolutionary processes. It usually makes use of organisms with rapid generation times and small ...

Glen Hood, Ph.D., assistant professor of biological sciences in Wayne State University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences ...

van Gestel, Jordi Wagner, Andreas and Barton, Nick H. 2021. Cryptic surface-associated multicellularity emerges through cell adhesion and its regulation. PLOS Biology ...