New research has revealed that birds, reptiles, and mammals have developed complex brain circuits independently, despite sharing a common ancestor. These findings challenge the traditional view of ...

The age of the dinosaurs may conjure images of large, fearsome reptiles in the minds of many – but those were far from the ...

Charles Darwin predicted the existence of a moth with a long tongue based on a comet orchid's nectar spurs. This was ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

Baminornis is a landmark discovery and ranks among the most important bird fossils unearthed since the discovery ...

Scientists found that evolution led bird and mammal brains to evolve separately, using different genetic instructions.

This discovery strengthens the idea that birds had already begun to diversify by the late Jurassic period. The presence of ...

The smooth wings of fruit-sucking moths appear to be ridged like a leaf – but the resemblance is created by nanostructures ...

The Religious ‘Nones’ are now the largest religious cohort in the U.S. (28%). They are more prevalent among American adults ...

That's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread it to birds and ...

A 69-million-year-old fossilized skull unearthed in Antarctica could rewrite the history of modern birds. The nearly complete ...

They said such evolution could, in theory, lead to vaccines needing to ... in a farm worker in the West Midlands region. It said bird-to-human transmission of avian influenza was rare and that ...