A focus on animals in surroundings that resemble their native habitat, behaving in ways that are typical...
Biology
Biology investigates how living things function and change across generations. Its history shows how observation and experiment transformed humanity’s understanding of organisms within the larger systems they inhabit.
Walking took a very long time to develop, with evidence of bipedalism among early humans in Africa...
Viruses are also genetic innovators – and possibly the pioneers of using DNA as the genetic blueprint...
In recent decades, Ballard has put much effort into increasing diversity in oceanographic exploration and research. Introduction...
These giant predators are helping solve the mystery of Earth’s cooling shift some 50 million years ago....
Exploring James Bell Pettigrew’s Design in Nature (1908), a provocative and forgotten exploration of the world’s archetypal whorl. This...
Science can observe various phases of fetal development but cannot determine when human life begins. Introduction A...
New data challenges the long-held theory that all of Mars’s water escaped into space. By Robert PerkinsContent...
Our biggest evolutionary advantages are an ability to walk on two legs and our big brains. By...
Early Neanderthals likely benefited from an ingression of H. sapiens Y chromosomes some-time between 370,000 and 100,000...
Scientists discovered a living microbial mat that uses arsenic instead of oxygen for photosynthesis and respiration. Introduction...
If you go by editorial cartoons and T-shirts, you might have the impression that evolution proceeds as...
Darwin to understand the convergence of disparate scales of geological and human history. The event now known...
By looking at drug addiction from an evolutionary perspective, we may understand its underlying significance and evaluate...
Inside Rome’s Colosseum visitors can view the chambers that once held animals and contenders below the arena...
Skull of a Homo sapiens (a.k.a. modern human) individual, on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural...
This hand was discovered in articulation and all bones are represented except for the pisiform. / Photo...
Reconstruction of ancient life and environments is an extremely challenging problem. By Dr. William Irvin Sellers Professor,...
Holding on in hurricane-force winds. Colin Donihue, Creative Commons In the wake of two hurricanes in the Turks and Caicos Islands, researchers document for...
Image: Chelsea Turner/MIT Study identifies neurons that fire at the beginning and end of a behavior as...
Image by Pablo Blasberg As daylight saving time looms, researcher sheds light on health effects of not...
Ammonite fossil / Photo by Becks, Wikimedia Commons Nineteenth-century England saw a major revolution in the scientific...
By Brad Bowman / 05.17.2018 Sosland Family Graduate Fellow in the History of Science Harvard University In...
San Diego Giant on display at side show In December of 1896, a group of anatomists and...
“The Ancient Wrasse”, a detail from the frontispiece to The Aquarium (1856, 2nd edition) — Biodiversity Library Bernd Brunner on...
Emily Anthes braves locusts, beetles, mealworms and more as she asks whether eating insects is the answer...
Patricia Fara traces the changing iconography of Joseph Banks, the English botanist who travelled on Captain Cook’s...
Detail from a print featured in the first part of Vincent’s Wondertooneel der Nature – Rijks Museum Bert van de...
Sunrise at noon in the Arctic. Little exposure to sun was a piece of the genetic puzzle. Bering...
A virus is essentially an information system (encoded in DNA or RNA) surrounded by a protective coat. Tom...