The Cornell Lab of Ornithology today announced the release of a new online tool for studying biodiversity and the ...

Biologists have long drawn the animal family tree with a hazy base, unsure which creature first split from the common ancestor that gave rise to everything from jellyfish to humans. Now, a new genomic ...

It’s like handing puzzles to expert problem-solvers.

Scientists undertook the first comprehensive assessment of how often snakes eat their own, uncovering reports of the behavior ...

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

Lipstick vines get their name from their bright red, tube-shaped flowers. But one member of this group of plants has lost its ...

Whales are mighty. Blue whales, for example, aren’t only the largest animal on Earth, but as far as we know, they’re the ...

Lipstick vines get their name from their bright red, tube-shaped flowers. But one member of this group of plants has lost its lipstick-like appearance— its flowers are shorter, wider, and yellowish ...

Land snail extinctions are accelerating across islands, exposing a devastating collapse of some of the world’s most fragile ...

The inclusions are so faint in the unpolished amber that Goethe, despite his interest in observing nature, likely never realized he had insects preserved inside what amount to biological time capsules ...

For more than half a century, some of Earth’s strangest fossils looked like they had washed in from an alien world.