Male caregiving is rare. Of the nearly 6,000 mammalian species, fewer than 5% of fathers stick around to raise their own ...

When he was just a teenager trying to decide what to do with his life, César de la Fuente compiled a list of the world’s ...

Genetic ancestry may play a key role in how acral melanoma, a rare and aggressive type of skin cancer, develops and behaves, ...

How did the complexity of many organisms living today evolve from the simpler body plans of their ancestors? This is a central question in biology. Take our hands, for example: Every time we type a ...

A new study shows that targeting key epigenetic proteins may permanently switch off cancer genes. Scientists at Monash University, working with Harvard University, report they have found a way to ...

A rare and elusive predator was recently captured on camera in South Texas, sparking excitement among wildlife experts and ...

A Georgian woman brings her passion to winemaking First of Three Parts Despite growing up in Kakheti, a well-known wine region and the agricultural heart ...

For nearly four billion years, life on Earth evolved blindly. Natural selection tinkered, mutations accumulated, and ...

Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary trade-off between big brains, bipedalism and the limits of motherhood.

Scientists have recognized snails’ regenerative abilities for centuries. In 1766, a researcher documented that decapitated garden snails could regrow their entire heads. Despite that long history, ...