A team of paleontologists is racing to recover dozens of fossilized whale skeletons from the site of a road building excavation in northern Chile.
A team of paleontologists is racing to recover dozens of fossilized whale skeletons from the site of a road building excavation in northern Chile.
Traits that help one sex but hurt the other are not sufficient for maintaining genetic variation.
Scientists track changes in bacterial genomes during a hospital outbreak to discover potential pathogenesis genes.
A video of thousands of birds flying as a single coordinated, amorphous group stirs up questions about how they do it.
Women of the French families that colonized Canada in the 17th and 18th centuries had more children and grandchildren than late comers to the region.
A fossilized jaw bone and teeth from Western Europe are recognized as the oldest modern human fossils recovered in the region.
Bacteria age, but as a lineage, can live forever.
The widespread bacteria known to manipulate host reproductive output can do so by ramping up stem cell division and consequent egg production in Drosophila.
A bevy of genes known to be active during human fetal and infant development first appeared at the same time that the prefrontal cortex—the area of the brain associated with human intelligence and personality—took shape in primates, a new study publi
Disgraced South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk and a team of colleagues claim to have cloned the wild canine.