Prehistoric humans in Africa may have avoided areas infested with malaria-spreading mosquitoes, a new study suggests.

In Colombia, hippos introduced by Pablo Escobar in the 1980s have become a major issue. The population has grown to around ...

Just like vertebrates, cephalopods — such as octopuses and squid — have elaborate brains. Neuroscientists are flocking to ...

The Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus) is one of the longest living vertebrates on Earth, with an estimated lifespan ...

A remarkably preserved, mummified reptile from 289 million years ago is rewriting what we know about how animals first ...

The water-to-land transition stands as one of the most significant events in vertebrate evolution, giving rise to the two major groups of living land vertebrates-amniotes and lissamphibians-which ...

Don't get used to artificial intelligence as you know it now. It's rapidly evolving, consistently expanding exponentially in its capabilities. Its skills are growing so fast that it's even hard for ...

This question of why some branches of the tree of life explode into thousands of species, while others remain small, has shaped evolutionary biology since Charles Darwin. My colleague and I have ...

People who eat around nine servings a day of ultraprocessed foods like chips and doughnuts have about a 67% higher risk of heart attacks, strokes and dying from heart disease compared with those who ...

Researchers have created a method called optovolution that uses light to guide the evolution of proteins with dynamic behaviors. By engineering yeast cells so their survival depended on proteins ...

UI and UX design have changed dramatically over the past two decades. What began as static webpages with minimal interaction has evolved into complex systems shaped by user behavior, psychology and ...

A research team led by Profs. Zhu Min, Lu Jing, and Zhu You'an from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences published two back-to-back ...