Shane Campbell-Staton is professor of evolutionary biology at Princeton University. He's also the host of the PBS show, Human ...

Nonhuman primates like bonobos and chimpanzees might engage in same-sex sexual activities to strengthen bonds, particularly ...

Beneath the surface of forests, grasslands and farms, vast fungal webs form underground trading systems to exchange nutrients ...

Mudskippers break the rules of fish biology by breathing through their skin, walking on their fins and thriving on land where ...

Biologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have released the first broad-scale, comparative, fine-grained analysis linking the amplitude, or volume, of a bird's song to its vocal frequency, ...

A reduced genome in an island species raises evolutionary questions.

The ocean’s ultimate predator once hunted whales with ease. Here’s why the world’s biggest shark eventually vanished off the ...