For more than 20 years, USF Associate Professor Ryan Carney has pursued paleontology's biggest questions about Archaeopteryx ...

Bromeliads are one of the great evolutionary success stories of the neotropics, the tropical ecosystems of the Americas. The ...

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

The act of puncture – stabbing something with a sharp tool – is incredibly widespread in the natural world. Examples of ...

Genes associated with male reproductive biology appear to be under relaxed selective constraint in a primate species with low sperm competition.

The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an ...

Line up the brains of a fish, bird and a mammal, and something unexpected comes up. You do not see three different answers to the problem of making sense of the world. You see one answer, tilted three ...

Once you start seeing natural selection as a constant, omnipresent, and sometimes speedy force, almost everything else in ...

The Story of Birds, subtitled An evolutionary history of the dinosaurs that live among us, does exactly what it says on the tin. Brusatte recounts the evolution of birds from their origins deep in the ...

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new picture of how life on Earth – and elsewhere – may have begun ...

This Saturday, May 9, is birding's biggest day. It is called Global Big Day, an annual 24-hour event in which thousands of people around the world help crowdsource sightings of birds for the Cornell ...