When a snake displays its fangs, it’s showing off one of evolution’s greatest weapons. This is because snake venom is not a ...

Researchers have uncovered a new species of wolf snake on Great Nicobar Island and named it Lycodon irwini in tribute to Steve Irwin. The glossy black, non-venomous snake grows up to a meter and ...

Interactions among viruses can help them succeed inside their hosts or impart vulnerabilities that make them easier to treat.

A major study shows complex cells evolved gradually in an oxygen-poor world, challenging long-held assumptions about life’s ...

An undergraduate field seminar at Brown teaches aspiring biologists and backyard botanists alike how to identify the flora of ...

Human society or health, ecosystems or engineered systems: the processes most relevant to our lives all depend on collective behavior, that is, are shaped by the actions and interactions of many ...

Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein ensured that a Google search for his name would return several websites about his donations to science ...

New research finds extinction rates have been declining for a century, challenging assumptions of an ongoing mass extinction.

Complex life may have started its rise in Earth’s oxygen-free oceans nearly a billion years earlier than anyone imagined.

Would you rather fight a horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses? The famous question, though implausible, reflects a ...

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

An international collaboration study reveals how evolution and locomotion patterns, such as bipedalism, shaped bone ...