When scared, the crested pigeon screams with its flapping feathers
The crested pigeon's mere act of taking frantic flight is enough to alert its flock of looming danger.
How climate change is making these bamboo-eating lemurs go hungry
Climate change is starving out Madagascar's greater bamboo lemur, a study published Thursday reports in Current Biology.
When faced with pollution, these sea snakes shed their stripes
Australian ecologists found turtle-headed sea snakes cope with excessively polluted waters by losing their white stripes.
Why the first flowers may have looked like magnolias
An international team of botanists has achieved the best reconstruction to date of an ancestral flower.
Dog domestication wasn't too rough. A new population genetics study from Stony Brook University argues wolves were tamed just once, 40,000 years ago.
Cat domestication happened in two waves during ancient times, according to a new genetic analysis.
Only two species of yeast --- ale yeast and lager yeast -- have been used for traditional beer brewing over the last 600 years. A lab in North Carolina may have found a third in the strangest place: On bees…
Using computer models based on a Smithsonian's fossil collection, evolutionary biologists now believe whales' gigantic size was driven by climate change.
To better understand the historical motivations of cannibalism, a new study looks into the nutritional value of human body parts.
