A single African lake produced nearly 500 fish species in roughly 15,000 years, an evolutionary sprint that should’ve ta ...

A quartet of researchers from Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Básicas, Universidade de São Paulo, and São Bernardo do Campo, all in Brazil, has conducted a study of the effectiveness of different ...

Learn how Tigrino’s DNA and museum specimens helped researchers untangle the identities of five tiger cat species.

A new study investigates how different mammals react to climate change. Animals that live for a long time and/or produce less offspring -- like bears and bison -- are more resilient than small animals ...

In the natural world—where predators pounce, prey flee, and group members feed and sleep in solidarity—animal behavior is glorious in its variety. Now, new research suggests there may be an underlying ...

In our modern era of larger, more destructive, and longer-lasting fires -- called the Pyrocene -- plants and animals are evolving quickly to survive. By synthesizing the wide body of research about ...

It's easy to think of pupils as simple holes that widen in the dark and shrink in the light. But if you look across the animal kingdom, you'll see a variety of pupil shapes: vertical slits in cats and ...