The devastating tsunami that hit Japan in March 2011 set off a series of events which have long fascinated scientists like me. It was so powerful that it caused 5 million tons of debris to wash into ...

Most people assume that if a bird's parents migrate south every winter, the chicks will simply follow that same script ...

From a bat’s wings to an elephant’s cancer resistance, an interdisciplinary team of scientists at University of Utah Health are using animals’ unique traits to pinpoint regions of the human genome ...

How fast is evolution? In adaptive evolution, natural selection causes genetic changes in traits that favor the survival and reproduction of individual organisms. However, it is still hard to tell how ...

Evolution is often imagined as a steady process of gaining new abilities, but in reality it also involves losing traits that are no longer useful. Across the natural world, animals have abandoned ...

So what is an animal anyway? In our inaugural episode of Crash Course Zoology, we’ll endeavor to answer just that because as it turns out, it’s complicated! But before we get there we’ll need to ...