If you look far enough back in time, a pattern may emerge. After studying thousands of ancient fossils, paleontologist Jack Sepkoski identified such a thing in 1981: an epic sequence of life …
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Scientists have found another piece to the puzzle of how echolocation evolved in bats, moving closer to solving a decades-old evolutionary mystery. All bats, except the fruit bats of the Pteropodidae family …
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How long have mammals been social animals? According to a new study, at least since the Late Cretaceous part of the Dinosaur era, which holds back the earliest evidence of behavior for …
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Owls are one of the rare avian predators that hold their prey by night, and new research suggests that the way DNA molecules are packaged in their eyes has something special, making …
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Decades of teasing apart from Neanderthal DNA have produced a collection of ancient genes that recount the history of love relationships between the fragmented branches of humanity’s family tree. By now, the …
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