The evolution of insect-eating birds may have spurred rapid changes in the flight ability of ancient cicadas, according to ...

Bats are incredibly diverse animals: They can climb onto other animals to drink their blood, pluck insects from leaves or hover to drink nectar from tropical flowers, all of which require ...

This story appears in the February 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. Most of us will never get to see nature's greatest marvels in person. We won't get a glimpse of a colossal squid's ...

A handful of new studies moves the needle toward a consensus on the long-disputed question of whether insect wings evolved from legs or from the body wall, but the devil is in the details. Jef Akst ...

Understanding these genetic interactions is crucial for unraveling how morphological novelties like proto-feathers emerged ...

Few subjects in evolutionary theory have posed such intriguing puzzles for so long as the origin of birds. Evidence of avian beginnings has been elusive in the fossil record because birds' light ...

In the frigid waters of the ocean surrounding Antarctica, fish have a special trait which allows them to survive the big chill. As scientists discovered in the 1960s, the fish have adapted by ...

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