Survival of the fittest has become shorthand for Darwinism, but Charles Darwin didn’t actually coin the phrase. Herbert Spencer did, in his 1864 book The Principles of Biology, presenting it as ...

Evolution is the way groups of life-forms change over time to better fit the places they live. It is why life takes "such endless forms most beautiful and wonderful," as British biologist Charles ...

Doc, a 22-year-old giraffe who was one of the original animals at the Brevard Zoo's Expedition Africa exhibit, has died. Doc had been experiencing mobility issues and other age-related health ...

ALL RIGHT. WE’RE INTERESTED. THANK YOU SO MUCH, HEATHER. WELL, THE SACRAMENTO ZOO IS WELCOMING A NEW BABY GIRAFFE. HERE IT IS. THE ZOO SAYS AMEERA GAVE BIRTH TO A FEMALE CALF SATURDAY AFTERNOON.

A new study from the University of Michigan suggests that organisms could get better at evolving over time. Researchers used a computer program to simulate organisms switching between beneficial ...

As an animal lover, it's never easy to hear about the death of a loving and gentle creature. My thoughts and prayers are with the Gladys Porter Zoo as they mourn the loss of Malcolm, a massive ...

The Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville is mourning the death of one of its newest giraffes, who was euthanized after sustaining a severe hip injury, possibly while attempting to mate with another ...

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Evolution is the process of heritable change in populations of organisms over multiple generations. Evolutionary biology is the study of this process, which can occur through mechanisms including ...

For more than a century, scientists believed that a fossil of a winged dinosaur from the Jurassic Period discovered 160 years ago in Germany represented the earliest birds. Now, researchers have ...

Showing his love and affection for animals, Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently inaugurated and visited Vantara, an animal rescue, conservation and rehabilitation centre in Gujarat's Jamnagar ...