Evolution
How the Rule-Breaking Octopus Is Rewriting the Evolution of Intelligence
Cephalopods are loners, but they’re also intelligent
How This Mouse Lives at a Higher Elevation Than Any Other Vertebrate
It’s become uniquely suited to handle below-freezing temperatures and a diet of poisonous plants
How a Heat Wave Disturbs Generations of This Sex-Changing Spider
A maternally inherited bacteria that turns males into females is foiled by a brief warm spell
The Surprising Evolutionary Trade-offs Between Fangs, Stingers, and Claws
The science behind nature’s different puncture tools
This Blind Cave-Dwelling Fish May Be the Key to Understanding Brain Evolution
Its life in the darkness could shine a light on other neural rewiring
Was the Saber-Toothed Cat Doomed by Its Signature Fangs?
Five million years of evolutionary history were hidden in a museum drawer
How City Rats Are Becoming Resistant to Poison
They’re evolving faster than we can stop them
These Ancient Baby Predators Challenge Our Understanding of Evolution
The first animals onto terra firma weren’t amphibians as previously suspected
The Venus Flytrap Mystery That Vexed Darwin, Solved
The carnivorous plant’s speedy reaction time sets it apart from other plants
Koalas Were in Trouble Before Humans Arrived in Australia
DNA evidence points to environmental upheaval as a cause of their Late Pleistocene decline
