Scientists are continuously looking for a way to improve the storage capacity on hard drives, but they might need to be ...

Hidden within fish DNA are powerful genetic twists that may explain one of nature’s biggest mysteries: how new species form so quickly. In Lake Malawi, hundreds of cichlid fish species evolved at ...

When the environment changes dramatically, animals from mollusks to crows can make big changes in their behavior that enable ...

Scientists have finally cracked a long-standing mystery about squid and cuttlefish evolution by analyzing newly sequenced ...

For decades, ever since biologists recognized the potential environmental harms from climate change, they have worried that ...

(Volodymyr Yakimchuk/Creatas Video+/Getty Images Plus) A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have ...

A dominant “Hulk” lizard morph is wiping out other color variants, demonstrating how fast evolutionary balance can collapse.

A new study shows evidence of “evolutionary rescue”—a kind of rapid evolution in which organisms genetically adapt to severe ...