A new Yale study identifies a distinct species of eyeless cavefish, a discovery that challenges long-held conventional wisdom ...

A simple change in species composition can impact the course of evolution: A research team from the University of Bern and the University of British Columbia in Canada shows that the presence of just ...

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Marine scientists have discovered that what was once thought to be a single sea slug species is actually at least 75 distinct ...

New research combines microscope and video technology to analyze how different species develop, and how changes in the timings of any developments can be tracked. A detailed analysis of the Energy ...

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Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, scientists have discovered a giant, bus-size sea predator that was ...

A University of Melbourne researcher has spotted a rare evolutionary phenomenon happening rapidly in real time in bats living in the Solomon Islands. Dr Tyrone Lavery reports in a paper published in ...

If you could travel back roughly 250 million years, you would not see the Earth you know today. Instead, you would arrive at ...