My colleague and I have published a new study of cactus flowers which may help explain the conundrum. For more than a century ...

My colleague and I have published a new study of cactus flowers which may help explain the conundrum. For more than a century ...

The blooming of a titan arum, or corpse plant, is a spectacle like none other in the plant world. With its putrid stench, ...

Catherine Falls Commercial via Humans are the only species with a chin — a feature absent from even our closest relatives. Indeed, it's such a unique anatomical quirk that it's one of the main traits ...

The original skull, digital scan, and reconstructed face of Little Foot. Credit: Amélie Beaudet. Scientists have finally ...

Two fossil skulls found in central China are prompting fresh debate over when they lived – and where they belong in the human ...

The cactus on your windowsill may grow slowly, but new research shows that cacti are surprisingly fast at creating new species. Biologists have long thought that pollinators and specialised flowers ...

Scientists have long observed that embryos of different species within a phylum look quite distinct at early and late ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

This call for articles and short reports is to enhance our understanding of the function and evolution of short genomic ...

Why so much anger and fuss? One might imagine from all the wailing and gnashing of teeth in the Tri-Lakes area that Beelzebub himself is planning to build a den of iniquity at the corner of I-25 and ...

Evolution has fostered many reproductive strategies across the spectrum of life. From dandelions to giraffes, nature finds a way. One of those ways creates quite a bit of suffering for humans: pollen, ...