A new study provides evidence for the peaceful coexistence between four big cats species in Guatemala's rainforests.

The tallest plants alive today can grow to over 100 meters tall. But they evolved from ancestors that were just a few ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

Ancient climate cooling reshaped carnivoran bodies, with fossils revealing how habitats drove species diversity worldwide.

The completion of a South American lung fish genome sequencing represents one of the most remarkable moments within current ...

Research into wood warblers shows that gene sharing across species played a key role in shaping their bright feather colors.

An undergraduate field seminar at Brown teaches aspiring biologists and backyard botanists alike how to identify the flora of ...

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.

At the base of mossy trees, deep in the mountains of Taiwan and mainland Japan or nestled in the subtropical forests of ...

Twins are pretty rare, accounting for just 3% of births in the US these days. But new research shows that for primates 60 ...

Australopithecus is an extinct group of ape-like modern human relatives—or potentially ancestors—that walked upright and ...