The idea came to Jablonski after studying bird behavior in the American West. He noticed some birds would fling out their ...

A carnivorous fruit fly living in bubbling African streams may sound like a fever dream. However, with the help of DNA analysis of a pinned insect from a museum in Zurich, researchers have managed to ...

A bright red splash on a butterfly’s wing is more than a pretty pattern. It is a warning label, honed by millions of years of ...

A computer model from Cornell University makes it easier to develop stably flying flapping robots.

Oak trees have a surprising trick to fight back against hungry caterpillars: they simply wait. When trees are heavily ...

Giant prehistoric insects, some with two-foot wingspans, once roamed Earth. For years, scientists believed higher oxygen ...

Explore the history of life on Earth, from 3.5-billion-year-old fossils to the vast diversity of species on our planet today.

A long-standing assumption about evolution is being challenged by new research showing that vastly different species can rely ...

Butterflies and a moth species reused the same two genes, ivory and optix, to create similar warning colors over millions of ...

The way bugs and birds flap their wings may look effortless, but the dynamics that keep them aloft are dizzyingly complex and ...

Deep in human evolutionary history, before anything recognizable as a vertebrate existed, one of our oldest relatives had a ...

The analysis, carried out using Sentinel-1 radar satellites over 2,400 square kilometers of forest in Lower Franconia ...