The superior colliculus is a midbrain region that is traditionally thought to help animals orient themselves toward important locations in space, like directing their eyes and head toward a bright ...

By Bobby Bascomb Just 0.7% of the world’s land surface is home to one-third of the world’s most threatened and unique ...

Evolution keeps making crabs. In fact, it's happened so often that there's a special scientific term for an organism turning crab-like: carcinization. But how many times has it happened, and why? When ...

The baobab tree is known as the “tree of life” and its fruit is feeding a growing global market for natural food and beauty ...

Mammals independently evolved similar inner ear shapes, showing convergence due to shared environmental pressures.

Life made the modern Earth as much as the Earth made life, a new book by a philosopher of consciousness argues. That dynamic ...

Long known as a messenger within cells, RNA is increasingly seen as life’s molecular communication system — even between ...

It not only survived the comet impact and global firestorms that killed the dinosaurs, but all the turmoil of the ending of ...

R.Evolution, a UAE-headquartered luxury real estate developer ... has thus also received an additional title of "Tree Of Life." Notably, the project's construction announcement comes in the wake of ...

Multicellularity has evolved a staggering 45 times or more across the tree of life. Yet fundamentally ... Núria Ros-Rocher, an evolutionary biologist at the Pasteur Institute in France, and colleagues ...

Maley is a researcher in the Biodesign Center for Biocomputing, Security and Society, director of the Arizona Cancer Evolution Center and professor with ASU's School of Life Sciences ... of cancer can ...