Zoraptera, an order of insects that includes angel insects, has defied accurate taxonomic description since 1913.

In ‘A Voice in the Wilderness,’ Joseph L. Graves Jr. discusses his scientific journey, how he debates racists, and more.

Peter and Rosemary Grant will headline a Galápagos conservation cruise starting October 30, supporting the Charles Darwin Research Station's evolutionary biology chair. This intimate seven-day journey ...

The evolutionary trade-off that crossed humans' airway and food pathway, raising choking risk from toddlerhood to old age — ...

The uvula is nearly unique to humans among mammals. An evolutionary biologist unpacks competing theories for why we evolved ...

Are giant sinkholes in China's karst mountains havens or traps for the rare plants that inhabit them? A new study finds they ...

In a new article published in Frontiers in Bioinformatics, biologists Dr. Jack M Craig, Dr. Blair Hedges, and Dr. Sudhir Kumar, all at Temple University, have built an evolutionary tree that ...

Tunas did not become large, fast and warm-blooded simply because an asteroid cleared the oceans of competing predators. Their defining traits appeared separately over tens of millions of years, ...

Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion of the genomic era shows that gene loss and simplification is a much more ...