

Science Jan 10

By drawing comparisons between sea slugs and Ziggy Stardust, the Bowiebranchia blog exposes the wild, beautiful and competitive evolution of both.
By Vicky Stein
Science Dec 10

As more humans move into concrete jungles, other animals, like túngara frogs, are joining them — and adjusting their behaviors along the way.
By Vicky Stein
Science Sep 20

Two scientists drugged some cephalopods and were surprised to find that their reactions to MDMA were similar to those of humans, despite massive evolutionary differences.
By Jamie Leventhal
Science Aug 23

A new ancient DNA study reports the first known person to have had parents of two different species.
By Michelle Langley, The Conversation
Three new studies rewrite the timeline on early human innovation and long-distance trade.
Nov 09

By Rashmi Shivni
The crested pigeon's mere act of taking frantic flight is enough to alert its flock of looming danger.
Oct 26

By Rashmi Shivni
Climate change is starving out Madagascar's greater bamboo lemur, a study published Thursday reports in Current Biology.
Aug 11

By Teresa Carey
Australian ecologists found turtle-headed sea snakes cope with excessively polluted waters by losing their white stripes.
Aug 03

By Mario Vallejo-Marin, The Conversation
An international team of botanists has achieved the best reconstruction to date of an ancestral flower.
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