The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an ...

A siphonophore—a colonial marine invertebrate related to the venomous stinging Portuguese Man-o-war—is scanned using Deep ...

Scottish wrens on remote islands are growing dramatically larger than their mainland relatives, showing how island evolution ...

Animals with larger brains produce fewer, larger offspring, explaining why birds evolved bigger eggs than the largest dinosaurs.

Blind Mexican cavefish became active in light while surface fish reacted to darkness, revealing how evolution rewired brains.

The idea that octopuses might be aliens emerged from the theory of panspermia (Stelele 2018), according to which life on Earth is not entirely of terrestrial ...

There’s no data to suggest that aliens exist. However, if we believed they existed and came to Earth, our planet would offer ...

Pterosaurs, the first vertebrates to fly, would have had more diverse wing shapes than current scientific reconstructions ...

With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself resurfaces: if aliens were to arrive on Earth, would they come to conquer us, ...

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new picture of how life on Earth – and elsewhere – may have begun ...

Biologists studying the Amazon expected some missing data. But they certainly did not expect such a large gap in their data. After studying thousands of records, they found that much of the Amazon ...