Supun Dilshan won the Photographer of the Year Portfolio for “Trapped Between Worlds,” a set of images capturing the plight ...

Animal mounting is a genuinely long-established ... it is vital to ensure its quality. Here are some selection criteria to ...

I’m drawn from my bed at dawn, lured by something deep and impossible to ignore – an evolutionary impulse, perhaps – to the ...

A new book offers an unsettling account of human exceptionalism and shows that the unique ways we gamble with risks and move out of our comfort zones may yet be our downfall.

More than five years on, studies suggest the animal is the most likely culprit, but other candidates haven't been ruled out.

A new study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (MPI-EB) sheds fresh light on one of the most ...

Though natural selection favours self-interest, humans are extraordinarily good at cooperating with one another. Why?

The Wallace Line divides species in Southeast Asia. A deep ocean trench prevents animal migration. Even flying birds rarely ...

For over 160 years, the Wallace Line has been one of biology’s most enduring mysteries. This invisible boundary, slicing ...

Selective breeding over the past century has shortened and flattened the snouts of German domestic pigs. Though not an ...

The story of human evolution in ancient past is said to be written in our modern bodies. In his book “Descent of Man,” Charles Darwin talks about vestigial structures. A vestigial structure is a body ...

Mr. Cañas-Valle’s discovery, described in the journal Ornithology in November, may be the first documented example of ...