Chimpanzees don't just randomly use sticks to fish for termites. A study reveals they meticulously select plants with ideal ...

Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together.

Long-term studies at Georgia Tech and beyond show that evolution is happening right now. They capture the rise of new species ...

Researchers found that cooperative fluid dynamics between single-celled organisms may have driven the evolution of ...

New study shows how bird traits like gene makeup and clutch size shape evolution. This may help scientists understand ...

An occasional series where Mongabay’s founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives, and story summaries.

Why do some plants thrive in specific regions but not in others? A study led by researchers at the University of Göttingen ...

Evolution is nature's engine, driving and shaping genetic change and the diversity around us. Charles Darwin famously ...

Intricate regulation of gene expression is important for execution of biology processes. Here, the authors generate a comprehensive map of accessible chromatin by integrating the ATAC-seq data of ...

Setting sail from Plymouth, UK, in August 2023, Oosterschelde, as part of the DARWIN200 mission, embarked on an extraordinary two-year planetary conservation mission, retracing Charles Darwin's ...

History demands that we not turn a blind eye to what is happening around us. As frustrating as it can be to wake up to this ...

A subset of North American iguanas likely landed on an isolated group of South Pacific islands about 34 million years ago — having rafted some 5,000 miles from the West Coast of the faraway continent, ...