The whites of your eyes are not an accident. They are, scientists now believe, one of the most sophisticated social ...

Animal-borne illnesses that infect humans, known as zoonotic viruses, require little to no evolution before jumping between ...

Plants and animals have evolved all sorts of ways to make themselves more appealing to potential mates—including colorful ...

Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every ...

For thousands of years, humans living high in the Argentinian Andes have relied on drinking water that would make most people ...

Genetic switches near the FTO locus may enable hibernators’ extreme metabolic resilience and could inspire future treatments ...