The Cascade County Weed and Mosquito Division has detected the West Nile virus in mosquitoes for the first time this year.

Soft-bodied Cambrian fossils found in the Grand Canyon reveals how early animals evolved complex feeding systems over 500 ...

Complex organic molecules found floating around a distant protostar could mean that space is far richer in life's precursors ...

A fossilized brain from a 500-million-year-old sea creature shows unexpected spider-like features, hinting that spiders and their kin may have evolved in the ocean—not on land.

Half a billion years ago, a strange sea-dwelling creature called Mollisonia symmetrica may have paved the way for modern ...

A world-first tool is tracking Australia's progress in sequencing the full genomes—or genetic blueprints—of the country's 250 ...

A world-first study led by Museums Victoria Research Institute has revealed that beneath the cold, dark, pressurized world of ...

“The sea slug Elysia chlorotica is a small, unassuming creature that performs a remarkable feat: It eats algae and steals its ...

In the long history of life on Earth, one of the biggest turning points came when our distant ancestors stood tall—literally.

Published in the renowned journal Nature, their study reveals how proteins, long considered too fragile to survive millions ...

When you think of barnacles, you likely picture shell-like creatures stuck to the sides of boats or docks, or even whales.

Physicalism tries to reduce everything to matter. Extended naturalism offers a richer approach that includes mind, meaning, ...