Evolutionary Biology

The bizarre animal, found in eastern North America, has a strange body part that helps make it one of the fastest foragers in the animal kingdom.

Hope the kitten, who was found homeless at 15 weeks old with a rare genetic variation, is now up for adoption and should not be negatively affected.

Despite parental care being uncommon among invertebrates, it is a relatively frequent trait in spider species.

"[The discovery] shows that some of the big steps in evolution we thought were restricted to land animals actually first took place in fishes," said researcher John Long.

Scientists identified more than 40 new species of cichlid fish in Lake Mweru, East

Even in the starkest of situations, the act of eating another human's flesh remains almost beyond contemplation.

Mankind now a species that spends its whole life trying to convince itself that its existence is not absurd.

This is the oldest documented evidence for dandruff.

The Chinese giant salamander is capable of growing up to 5.9 feet in length.

The island of New Guinea is home to a group of unusual green-blooded lizards, known as Prasinohaema.

These marine animals can even change the texture of their skin to make themselves look like coral.

The work shows "how important serendipity is for evolution."

The (likely) oldest form of life on Earth was recently found thriving in Tasmania, giving us a true glimpse of our planet 3.7 billion years ago.

The ancient frilled shark once lived alongside the T-Rex and has remained evolutionarily unchanged for 80 million years.

The new approach provides a simple solution to a long-perplexing problem.

Don't worry, they grow back in the summer.