An analysis of 140,000 vocalizations from 77% of bird species showed that beak size and geography play a big role in the way birds sound.

Humans' increasingly large footprint across the planet is forcing plants & animals to adapt and is affecting some species' evolutionary path.

A team of virologists, infectious disease specialists and pathobiologists affiliated with several institutions in China and ...

Researchers led by electrical engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a better way to perform the ...

In a new study involving whole-genome data, researchers present “CASTER,” a tool that uses arrangements in DNA sequences known as site patterns to infer “species trees,” which are diagrams that depict ...

I’ve always had a fondness for the little clusters of closely related species that evolution can produce. Sometimes it’s a ...

Birds that typically stay in Michigan over the winter can handle even these temperatures. But other birds may struggle to ...

The genes that build the cartilage of fish gills were repurposed to build the cartilage in mammals’ outer ears ...

As forests continue to be cleared and forested landscapes degraded by human activity, their loss can significantly affect the ...

Research team from the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen ...

When you picture a dinosaur, what does it look like? For Jingmai O'Connor, paleobiologist and associate curator of reptiles ...

A 'bizarre' material used by some birds to line their nests in tree cavities could actually save their offspring.