As the climate warms, scientists expect animals and plants to move to cooler areas—uphill, toward the poles, or into deeper waters. But in a surprising twist, scientists have found that over a third ...

MailOnline has asked the experts what the world might look like if the Neanderthals and Denisovans hadn't gone extinct.

With the rise of AI and other technologies, many people feel uneasy. While some developments, such as generative AI, have ...

Brits will need to get acquainted with the idea of an annual event dedicated to insects, because Flying Ant Day 2025 is just ...

The crustacean known as the shrimp is closely related to lobsters and crabs, but it has plenty of variety within its more immediate family line. There are over 2,000 documented shrimp species in the ...

Life-history theory, central to our understanding of diversity in morphology, behaviour, and senescence, describes how traits evolve through the optimisation of trade-offs in investment. Despite ...

More than 1.5 million years ago, two different species of ancient humans crossed paths on a lakeshore, perhaps locking eyes with each other. These early forerunners of Homo sapiens wandered in a ...

Two species of ancient human relatives crossed paths 1.5 million years ago. Fossilized footprints in Kenya captured the moment, according to a new study.

Gloger’s Rule involves within-species variation of plumage color. In wetter areas, the plumage tends to be darker.

Even within a species, individual plants’ numbers will vary, sometimes by a little, sometimes by a lot, a phenomenon called demographic noise. If this variation is random, in the manner of Hubbell’s ...