When a snake displays its fangs, it’s showing off one of evolution’s greatest weapons. This is because snake venom is not a single toxin, but actually a swirling cocktail of dozens to hundreds of ...

Long before whales and sharks, enormous marine reptiles dominated the oceans with unmatched power. Scientists have ...

A fossil from the blustery plains of Patagonia is revising your book on one of the most elusive bands of hunting dinosaurs. The newly discovered dinosaur, Joaquinraptor casali, preyed on the soggy ...

Each year on the Serengeti, hundreds of thousands of wildebeest calves are born within weeks. Here's how the young predators ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

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Hunting is considered critical to human evolution by many researchers who believe that several characteristics that distinguish humans from our closest living relatives, the apes, may have partly ...

A new study has for the first time illuminated the evolutionary history of the bizarre anti-predator defense—the praying mantis startle display—and suggests that the element of surprise may be key to ...

When people build cities and introduce invasive creatures, resident critter populations sometimes adapt Brian Handwerk - Science Correspondent When humans build cities and introduce invasive species, ...

The researchers think the pattern they observed in ants reflects a more universal trend in the evolution of societal ...