It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about the behavior or nature and evolution. Now, USC researchers want to add a ...

Viruses that infect bacteria can still do their job in microgravity, but space changes the rules of the fight.

For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

Songbirds on the UCLA campus changed beak shapes during the pandemic, according to a new study. Researchers suspect it might be a case of rapid evolution.

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...

A uniquely preserved ichthyosaur from the Pliensbachian period helps resolve when a major evolutionary shift occurred among ...

About 445 million years ago, Earth nearly wiped out life in the oceans. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

New research explains how dust links the formation, evolution, and fate of stars and planets, and why future telescopes are needed to observe these processes in detail ...