The U.S. is home to some of the most bizarre animal adaptations found nowhere else! From lizards that squirt blood from their eyes to fish that can survive on land, these creatures have evolved in ...

Scientists confirm that orcas and dolphins have lost the ability to return to dry land due to irreversible evolutionary ...

In the U.S., bird flu headlines have focused on an unprecedented number of American cases and the impact of the virus on dairy cows and on poultry ...

The progression of the species-jumping disease has been unprecedented, including the first-ever U.S. cases of infections in ...

In addition to being one of the most vicious animals to have ever lived, T-Rex would be pleased with the fact that he served as the inspiration for some of the most hilarious memes ever seen on the in ...

Thorny Devil. Image by Stu's Images, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Evolution is one of nature’s most incredible ...

Harbisson never felt that living in ... and indeed more skillful than the genetic evolution humans can effect with crossbreeding in plants and animals, but how important is it, measured against ...

“Imagine each species’ genome is a book, and each little DNA fragment is a sentence,” Rohwer said in a press statement. “Each sample has hundreds of books, all cut up into these sentences. To ...

We humans lack the musculature of our closest relative in the animal kingdom.Credit: Edwina Pickles Evolution took a different ... ancestors were simply never inactive enough, given their need ...

including in cognition — such as the transition from animals, such as sponges, without a nervous system to those with one, or the evolution of imagination. It’s hard to conceive how these ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering ...