Orange cats have always stood out in the living room, but new research shows they also stand apart in the mammal family tree.

When males are forced to compete for females, new species form more rapidly. This has been shown in a new study where the ...

A new study, led by the University of Vienna and the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, shows how the eyes of adult ...

We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints that poorly understood prions may have been the vital missing ingredient ...

All life everywhere is shaped by the subtle touch of evolution, but given our mastery over our environment, has human ...

The two subspecies split about 20,000 years ago. But since then, they may have interbred more often than Smithsonian ...

This week, Svante Pääbo, Nobel Prize winner for sequencing the Neanderthal genome, is visiting Estonia. In an interview with ...

With its unusual combination of features, the deep sea creature helps explain how other modern species emerged from a common ...

Did you know that traits in animal species can re-appear in a new generation hundreds of years later? These ancient ...