From river-clogging plants to disease-carrying insects, the direct economic cost of invasive species worldwide has averaged ...

Scientists are uncovering the extraordinary sensory worlds animals experience, realms of light, energy, and movement that ...

Also known as selective breeding, artificial selection is the human-guided cousin of evolution by natural selection. Instead ...

Rising consumer preference for cruelty-free, plant-based, and eco-friendly beauty products is transforming the global ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to survive hundreds of years by adjusting its virulence and the length of time ...

Scientists discovered a caterpillar that lives in spider webs, eating the bugs that get stuck - including the spider that ...

A new study has revived a long-standing controversy over the evolution of living beings between the French ...

Thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California show no signs of mammals and birds evolving in response to ...

Across the icy edges of Earth’s northern and southern reaches, life has adapted to thrive in some of the harshest conditions.

Animals can cause devastating damage too. Wild boars, for example, destroy crops, cornfields and vineyards, while mosquitoes ...

Many plants smell "good" — to humans that is — but some go several steps in the other direction, presenting themselves to the ...