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Scientists still cannot agree on what is the most important factor in the evolution of the giraffe’s neck.

A new documentary explores how animal sexuality has evolved to be about much more than just reproduction

Everything in biology ultimately boils down to food and sex. To survive as an individual you need food. To survive as a species you need sex.

Like a mother breastfeeding a baby, plants use underground web of fungi to feed seedlings that cannot survive on their own

When Charles Darwin first encountered parasitoid wasps, he was horrified. In an 1860 letter to American botanist Asa Gray, he wrote: “I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars.”

Like Charles Darwin did in 1831, a group of scientists and environmentalists last year set sail from the English port of Plymouth, headed for the Galapagos islands off the coast of Ecuador.

Colleges and universities have long been protected places for free expression without pressure or punishment

The set of folios published by John Gould will be presented at Firsts book fair in London in mid-May

Siblings — especially twins — sometimes share the strangest traits, like throwing a ball with their head or picking up keys and crayons with their toes. Researchers want to know what's up with that.

New research based on genome data for 9,506 species, as well as an examination of 200 fossils, provides the deepest understanding to date of the evolutionary history of flowering plants, called angiosperms

Research that aims to explain why some people experience intense visual imagery could lead to a better understanding of creativity and some mental disorders