The mating rituals of many bird species involve elaborate dances and displays by the males. The evolutionary reasons for the ...

In fact, social monogamy is extremely common in birds and somewhat common in mammals, while sexual monogamy is vanishingly ...

Until now, it’s been very hard for scientists to establish a detailed timeline of the early evolution of bacteria.

Oviraptorosaurs are weird dinosaurs, which look a bit like flightless birds. But these ancient animals aren't just funny ...

Humans utilize this capability to coordinate and share knowledge with each other, and researchers have previously suggested ...

Meta-analysis reveals there is no evidence that variation in clutch size in birds is driven by the reproduction–survival trade-off.

A hummingbird chick in Panama mimics a poisonous caterpillar to avoid predators—a rare case of bird-to-insect mimicry. When ...

Galapagos birds helped Darwin formulate his theory of evolution. Now some of those birds have evolved a dislike of all the ...

On the reading list this week is a portrait of a foreign-born woman who left an imprint on India, a blend of nature writing ...

Evolution is nature's engine, driving and shaping genetic change and the diversity around us. Charles Darwin famously ...

A new study has found Galapagos yellow warblers are more aggressive if they live closer to a road and are exposed to more noise. Researchers from Anglia Ruskin University and the University of Sienna ...

New study uncovers the intricate factors that drive the evolution of genomes. Utilizing data from the world's largest bird ...