In a vivid example of nature adapting to human pressure, invasive smallmouth bass in New York’s Adirondack Mountains have evolved traits that help them resist long-standing removal campaigns.

The downstream consequences of religion, politics and war can have far-reaching effects on the environment and on the ...

Snakes climbing trees use significantly more force than necessary to grip, a strategy detailed in Biology Letters. This overcompensation, sometimes tr ...

Earth's earliest life forms developed ways to survive the harmful effects of arsenic to cope with dramatic changes in their ...

A groundbreaking study suggests that the famous Cambrian explosion—the dramatic burst of diverse animal life—might have actually started millions of years earlier than we thought. By analyzing ancient ...

Chipmunks are members of the same family as squirrels. The small rodents spend most of their time aboveground, eating seeds, ...

Dr Maria Clara Castellanos is co-lead of Soapbox Science Brighton, which celebrates women and non-binary scientists ...