Named Foskeia, from Greek "fos" for light and "skei" from boskein meaning to forage, the species honours the ancient ...

Butterflies closer to the equator have been shown to evolve shared wing patterns faster than their relatives at higher latitudes. That gradient reframes tropical diversity as an active process, shaped ...

Meaning doesn’t stay inside individual brains. Shared attention and language allow meaning to become symbolic, social, and ...

Whales are mighty. Blue whales, for example, aren’t only the largest animal on Earth, but as far as we know, they’re the ...

In the early 1990s, Keith Willmott and a friend, both undergraduate students from the United Kingdom, arrived in Ecuador with ...

Old Indian poems and folk songs are revealing a surprising truth about the land. Scientists found that descriptions of thorny trees and open grasslands in texts written as far back as the 1200s ...

Life runs on instructions you never see. Every cell reads DNA, turns that message into RNA, and then builds proteins that ...

We show how this "cosmic clock" uncovers the evolution of rivers, coasts and habitats.

The European Club was a course that suited the low-handicap golfer. The links could, usually did, and took great pleasure in beating you up and it was revered and feared in equal measure. But change i ...

Every step you take depends on a structure most people rarely think about. The pelvis sits at the center of the body and ...

A new study documents the complex interactions between cougars and gray wolves in Yellowstone National Park and finds their ...