Some animals get only the briefest chance at life. Instead of stretching across years, their time is measured in days or ...

A conversation with the legendary evolutionary thinker and archaeologist, Eudald Carbonell. By Jan Ritch-Frel and Deborah ...

Life cycles require the creation of an autonomous individual, that individual’s growth and that individual’s reproduction In ...

Peacock males display their magnificent plumage, lion males fight bloody battles for a pride–and both pay for it with years ...

Meet the Messor ibericus harvester ant, the only animal on record that clones another animal to carry out its lifecycle, creating two separate species of ants to survive.

On islands, many plants rely on animals such as birds, bats and reptiles to disperse their seeds and help them grow in new ...

Jane Goodall, who chronicled the social lives of chimps, has died, but she leaves a lasting legacy on how we view the natural ...

New fossil research shows how human impacts, particularly through the rise of agriculture and livestock, have disrupted ...

In Telford's Exotic Zoo, life found a way. A casque-headed iguana has given birth to eight babies at the Shropshire wildlife park – without any contact with a male, via a phenomenon called ...

My cat, Thorwald, was my constant companion for 11 years. We bonded instantly at the shelter where I adopted him, and from that moment on, he was always there: greeting me at the door, curling up in ...

Sexual behavior is one reason why female mammals typically live longer than their male counterparts, according to a new study ...

At a lab in the heart of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, scientists are breeding corals to be more resilient to rising ...