Freed from the threat of invasive predators, Galapagos birds are performing astonishing feats of return and innovation – 200 ...

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A blind psychic not only claimed to predict the end of humanity and the universe, but also laid out a detailed timeline of ...

Argentavis magnificens was so massive it should’ve stayed grounded. Yet, this giant prehistoric bird still ruled the skies of ...

Environmental change doesn’t affect evolution in a single, predictable way. In large-scale computer simulations, scientists ...

Understanding the evolution of insect mating behavior is essential for explaining how early insects adapted to life on land.

High in the forest canopy, one genus of snake learned how to solve the problem of flight without wings. Here’s how, according ...

Researchers suspect that dark-eyed juncos living in Los Angeles adapted based on the availability of food scraps tossed by ...

Scientists have uncovered a hidden world 3.6 kilometres beneath the Greenland Sea, where methane mounds and life thrive in complete darkness. The discovery could transform climate science and ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the UCLA campus, students weren’t the only ones affected. A small brown bird called the ...