The Andean leaf-eared mouse is a fascinating species that thrives in high-altitude environments. This diminutive mammal has ...

The transition from a lumbering, heavy dinosaur body to the flight-adapted bird body plan is one of many fascinating episodes ...

A newly identified bird from the Late Jurassic is helping fill one of the biggest gaps in bird evolution. Named Zhengheornis ...

A breakthrough study revealed a primitive brain region that acts as a built-in filter to block out a noisy world.

Analysis of fossils discovered in Illinois reveals a previously unknown growth pattern and opens a new scientific debate.

A 150-million-year-old fossil unearthed in Fujian province has revealed what researchers say is the smallest known ...

‘I certainly wouldn’t have wanted to go swimming in the ancient oceans if these things were swimming around,’ one scientist said. Illustration: Hokkaido University. For centuries, humans have told ...

The Multi-Sensory Convergence Ladder: As signals ascend deeper into the fish’s forebrain, specifically into a structure called the pallium, single-sense neurons give way to multi-sensory cells. This ...

Invertebrate vaccine science has crossed a commercial threshold: Dalan Animal Health’s United States Department of ...

A tiny zebrafish, separated from us by more than 400 million years of evolution, sorts and then combines its senses in the ...

A remarkably preserved fossil is giving scientists an unprecedented opportunity to study the evolution of vertebrate brains over hundreds of millions of years. A fossil discovered in the coal deposits ...

Fossils smaller than a fingertip are reshaping what scientists thought they knew about how primate relatives spread after the asteroid impact.