When a predator like a lion walks through the grasslands, it makes its presence known by roaring, which can be heard miles ...

These are rare, special families of genes that duplicated themselves before our last common ancestor ever existed. Here is ...

A new study from Caltech explores the remarkable way a SoCal beetle infiltrates the colonies of the ant that runs the show in the Angeles National Forest — and what it can tell us about ...

Remember those days in science class when teachers stood at the front of the room, chalk in hand, explaining how the world ...

A freshman seminar encourages students to behave differently in the world and feel more passionately about biodiversity.

“The electrical activity of trees is a real phenomenon but it’s still a nascent field of inquiry,” said Novoplansky. “The ...

All species alive today, from chimpanzees to bacteria, are cousins that each have equally long lineages, rather than ...

A chicken-sized dinosaur from Spain has a surprisingly advanced skull and is rewriting 70 million years of evolution. Meet Foskeia pelendonum.

A controversy has ensued over whether a group of spruce trees in Northern Italy predicted a partial solar eclipse, prompting ...

Oxygen is everywhere on Earth today. But that hasn’t always been the case. Scientists think oxygen only became a lasting part ...

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...