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

A baby boom is sweeping the country, and the African penguins at Ripley's Aquarium of Myrtle Beach are getting in on the ...

A tiny wild cat newly identified as a species in Bolivia has become an unlikely tourist attraction. Visitors have flocked to ...

Colombia's biodiversity faces pressure from species introduced, some of which can spread rapidly, displacing native organisms ...

The near-neutral model of B chromosome evolution predicts that population invasion is quite fast. To test this prediction, in 1994, we introduced males of the grasshopper Eyprepocnemis plorans from a ...

Plant geneticist Alice Muchugi recalls meeting a group of furious fruit sellers on the side of a dusty road not far from ...

Floating on a small pontoon boat in Lake Kariba, an international team of scientists found themselves performing a nerve-jangling balancing act; tracking down Zimbabwe’s prehistoric animals while ...

Our data shows that wild dogs move very differently depending on where they are. Inside protected areas, they move, hunt and rest at moderate speeds. But when they disperse out of protected areas, ...

Transposable elements (TEs) are key contributors to genome evolution, yet their macroevolutionary roles in adaptive ...

The United Nations General Assembly on Friday endorsed a new world map that represents Africa more accurately in its larger size, a culmination of a recent campaign led by African countries and ...

South African central bank appoints seventh Monetary Policy Committee member South Africa's central bank has appointed economist Franz Ruch as an adviser to ‌the governors and seventh member of its ...