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Discovered more than half a century ago in Kenya and sitting in museum storage ever since, the roughly 20-million-year-old fossil Propotto leakeyi was long classified as a fruit bat.
Now, it's helping researchers rethink the early evolution of lemurs, distant primate cousins of humans that today are only found on the island of Madagascar, some 250...
Scientists have pinpointed a key gene that controls segmentation during spider development, which reveals a further similarity to the control of segmentation in insects, a study in eLife reports.
The research suggests the Sox gene was duplicated in the spider and then may have replaced the function of another related Sox gene that is still used...
Most animals have a keen sense of smell, which assists them in everyday tasks. Now, a new study led by researchers at NYU School of Medicine sheds light on exactly how animals follow smells.
Published online in the journal eLife on Aug. 21, the study measured the behavior of fruit flies as they navigated through wind...
An evolutionary biologists have discovered a new trophic interaction -- the first example of a parasitic plant attacking a parasitic insect on a shared host plant. The find is detailed this week in Current Biology and could point to new methods for controlling agricultural pests and perhaps fighting cancer.
Early this spring, Rice University evolutionary biologist...
An earlier spring may sound nice, unless you're a New England lobster.
New findings reveal that as coastal waters in the northeastern U.S. continue to warm -- bottom temperatures in Long Island Sound have increased 0.7°F per decade over the last 40 years -- resident lobsters are becoming increasingly susceptible to epizootic shell disease, a condition...
The Carrizo Plain National Monument is a little-known ecological hotspot in Southern California. Though small, it explodes in wildflowers each spring and is full of threatened or endangered species.
A long-term study led by the University of Washington and the University of California, Berkeley tracked how hundreds of species in this valley fared during the historic...