Roughly nine out of 10 people favor their right hand, a pattern so common it can feel almost invisible. Yet in evolutionary ...

Learn more about humans’ 3-million-year-long relationship with red meat, and how the food that shaped human evolution may now come with a high health and environmental cost in the modern age.

As their joints stiffened, they learned to fly through water. Wings became flippers. The evolution of flippers is a classic case of exaptation, a phenomenon in biology that has much to teach our own ...

OGDEN, Utah — The syllabus in 18-year-old Madelynn Wells’ introductory film studies class assigned “Jaws” first, and then the Spanish dark comedy “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.” She said ...

Conservation genomics is a bold new tool for protecting life on earth, but it will take all of us to slow the extinction ...

One second, you’re living your best summer life: toes in the sand, SPF applied like you’re a responsible adult, paper carton ...

Cockroaches tend to unsettle people for obvious reasons, though their biology is often stranger than their appearance. One ...

Shark teeth are everywhere once people start noticing them. They turn up in fossil shops, washed along beaches, buried inside ...

Human birth has a reputation for danger. The usual explanation is simple enough: walking upright narrowed the pelvis, while ...

After growing up in Mission Hill and initially studying nursing, Boswell’s path shifted when he began working bartending ...

A new interdisciplinary review published in The Quarterly Review of Biology argues that red meat, once an essential component ...

Researchers at the Technion have discovered how changes in genetic regulatory sequences can lead to alterations in the form and structure of animals—even when genetic regulatory systems are stable and ...