If you dig through the news, you may come across stories of different plants and animals enduring forest fires, sea ...

Life depends on genes being switched on and off at exactly the right time. Even the simplest living organisms do this, but ...

A new study reveals that distal gene regulation via DNA looping evolved 150 million years earlier than previously believed.

A piranha is a type of fish from the Serrasalmidae family and a member of the subfamily Serrasalminae. It’s a freshwater fish ...

Life depends on genes being switched on and off at exactly the right time. Even the simplest living organisms do this, but usually over short ...

Seneca Rocks Audubon Society will present a program titled, “Costa Rica, a Birder’s Paradise” on May 14 at 6:30 p.m., at the ...

With one of the largest shares of Appalachian Mountains among all the eastern states, Pennsylvania is home to many dozens of songbirds that fill our forestlands each summer.

Superb starlings help care for the offspring of birds they are not related to. “To me, that sounds like friendship,” one ...

Animals that rely exclusively on parthenogenesis to reproduce, like the flowerpot snake, are called obligate parthenogens, ...

Superb starlings appear to swap between parent and ‘nanny’ roles to help raise chicks over their lifetimes, even when they ...

The fact that humans who are not related by blood help each other repeatedly over time is demonstrably true—think of the ...

Moving to Flagstaff more than 20 years ago, I was initially too intimidated by stories of high elevation conditions to try ...