The discovery of a new species of a plant or animal would probably not spark much excitement to the non-scientist. But in this case, the conditions...

A new discovery of 18,000 individual dinosaur tracks in the Bolivian El Molino Formation contains the highest number of theropod dinosaur tracks in...

Jeremy DeSilva of Dartmouth College gave an evening presentation at the end of this year’s week-long American Society of Mass Spectrometry conference....

What if so-called rapid evolution is not a process of building something new, but it simply reveals what was already there? A recent peer-reviewed study...

Insects such as the ubiquitous butterfly belong to the huge phylum Arthropoda (creatures having paired, jointed appendages and a chitinous exoskeleton)....

The lepidosaurs are a large and diverse group of land vertebrates that include the snakes and lizards. There are almost 12,000 species of these animals....

The sweet melody of songbirds fills the air as the forest wakes up. But there is another familiar voice that joins in the morning songs: woodpecker....

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

The fossil record clearly shows insects have always been insects. In a recent study, researchers led by biologist Richard J. Knecht, a Ph.D. candidate...