About 1,600 years ago, salt miners in Iran apparently left their lamb lunch down the shaft. Their loss became scientists' gain. The now-mummified sheep...

Dogs don’t read the words on a page. Neither did Coco, the famous gorilla that learned to communicate using simple hand signs. So what affords humans...

A new editorial in GSA Today is claiming that secular scientists should cease using the term “Cambrian Explosion.”¹ It’s not...

Evolutionary philosophy states the fossil record is a record of the gradual and slow evolution of life forms that all came from a single common ancestor...

Gone are the days when many people (biologists included) saw insects as simple creatures that did little more than reproduce, eat, and grow—with...

Wasps (Family Vespidae) have a bad rap, but their benefits actually outweigh their painful sting—although many would disagree! What is the function...