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

Imprint, a Focused Research Organization building forensic immunology tools, aims to uncover the relationships between the immune system and chronic disease, including neuropsychiatric disordersNEW ...

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 ...

A newly discovered arthropod fossil, Mosura fentoni, has preserved eyes, nerves, and blood vessels - a rare insight into ...

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

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

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 ...

Some of the earliest members of the group were the radiodonts, whose members include famous species like Anomalocaris. While ...

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

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