Modern mammals have unique hearing abilities, able to sense a broad range of volumes and frequencies using middle-ear ...

Usually when you think of evolution or natural selection, you think of survival of the fittest. But sometimes, the resulting traits of evolution aren’t the most efficient solutions to the problems at ...

In most cases, evolution is a pretty slow process, taking hundreds if not thousands of years—but when humans enter the picture, some animals have to evolve at light speed in order to survive in a ...

The idea sounded sensible at the time. Sugar plantations were losing money to rats, who were chewing through crops and ...

Corals may look still, but they follow a daily sleep cycle. New research shows why corals rest at night while their microbes ...

An international team has discovered the earliest known hand-held wooden tools used by humans. A study jointly led by Professor Katerina Harvati from the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and ...

India’s autonomous future will not arrive overnight, and it will not look like anyone else’s. But step by step, through ...

Around 540 million years ago, Earth's biosphere underwent a pivotal transformation, shifting from a microbe-dominated world ...