Pugs, Persian cats, and other smushed-face cats and dogs are more similar to one another than they are to the wild animals ...

The coincidental emergence of lactase persistence mutations with livestock domestication was taken by many scientists at the ...

Bees prefer yellow flowers to red ones, reveals new research. And the findings may eventually lead to higher-yielding crops, ...

What do Persian cats, Pekingese dogs and pugs have in common? This unnatural morphology is the product of decades or ...

Perhaps the most famous example of convergent evolution in aquatic animals is the striking similarity between dolphins and sharks. Dolphins are mammals, while sharks are fish, yet their body ...

Owls, well adapted to hearing the exact location of prey, have something in common with an unrelated group of ...

Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence ...

Sophie Cohen-Bodénès told Newsweek: "We are investigating quantitatively if cuttlefish also use the signs to interact with prey." ...

Some years ago, scientists examining wild plants in a western corner of the United States encountered a curiously colourful ...

Harriers evolved super hearing abilities that rival owls, allowing them to detect and catch hidden prey using sound - not ...

Owls, well adapted to hearing the exact location of prey, have something in common with an unrelated group of raptors -- harriers. A new study has found that harriers across the world are able to keep ...