Three species that lived about 308 million years ago challenge the idea that the first land vertebrates underwent ...

Remote Scottish islands turned tiny wrens into giant birds that may be evolving into new species. Tiny wrens living on remote Scottish islands are providing scientists with a rare look at how ...

A nutrition scientist applies metabolism, biology and food science to one of science fiction's oldest questions.

Invertebrates make up the vast majority of animal life on Earth, yet many of them seem more alien than familiar. Unlike ...

Rajkumar Hirani has opened up about why he used an alien as the central character in ‘PK’. The filmmaker said his idea had ...

Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that consciousness is likely 'substrate flexible', challenging the ...

Artist’s impression of an Ediacaran animal community. Credit: Hugo Salais A new study suggests evolution stayed stuck for millions of years until sexual reproduction helped unleash a burst of ...

Pomacea canaliculata, commonly known as the apple snail, is a pest commonly found in Hong Kong's wetlands and farmlands. It ...

As a general rule, white chickens lay white eggs, and brown chickens lay brown eggs, but your best bet is to actually look ...

Led by the University of Birmingham, the study saw scientists compare how Eurasian wrens, an extremely teeny species of ...