Did Neanderthals have family recipes? A new study suggests that two groups of Neanderthals living in the caves of Amud and ...

A spat between birds at a backyard birdfeeder highlights the sometimes fierce competition for resources that animals face in the natural world, but some ecologically similar species appear to coexist ...

Sometimes plants are so similar to each other that the methods developed by 18th-century scientist Carl Linnaeus for identifying species are not enough. In a thesis from the University of ...

The Cambrian Explosion is a landmark moment in the history of life on Earth when many of the major groups of animals first ...

Parallel evolution occurs when two independent species evolve together at the same time in the same ecospace and acquire similar characteristics (extinct browsing-horses and extinct paleotheres).

Lucy and her kin weren't the only human ancestors to live in modern-day Ethiopia 3.3 million years ago, scientists say. They report that a different species, similar but not identical to Lucy's ...

Variation Humans, dogs and goldfish are examples of species. Different species have different characteristics from each other. For example, dogs have tails and humans do not.

While the species rely on two different toxins to give their bites some bite, both poisons evolved from the same digestive enzyme through very similar changes.

A surprising study on the behavior of unrelated lizards in very different parts of the world has demonstrated how evolution can lead to different species learning the same skills. The study ...

This behavior suggests that social feedback is important during the vocal development of this bat species, just as with humans. In her most recent study, published in Science, Fernandez reveals that ...