While developing his theory of natural selection, Charles Darwin was horrified by a group of wasps that lay their eggs within the bodies of caterpillars, with the larvae eating their hosts alive from ...

Dinosaurs have thrown into question everything we thought we knew about the evolution of body size. In biology, Bergmann's Rule is a 150-year-old principle that correlates an animal's body size to ...

A fish thought to be evolution’s time capsule just surprised scientists. A detailed dissection of the coelacanth — a 400-million-year-old species often called a “living fossil” — revealed that key ...

Tiffany Taylor, professor of microbial ecology and evolution at the University of Bath in the U.K., recommends the books that shaped her career and her outlook on life. When you purchase through links ...

Walk into consciousness labs, and you will mostly find studies on humans relying on verbal reports. This evidence is then ...