The function of early hominins’ enlarged brow ridges, and their reduction in size in Homo sapiens, have puzzled paleoanthropologists for decades.

A study of Shuar children in Ecuador provides a window into how the human body responds to infection in the sorts of conditions that shaped our species’ evolution.

The brown tree snake has wreaked havoc on the island of Guam, but one solution to the problem could lie in the serpent’s own physiology.

Some beetle species may have evolved to tunnel into the ground to escape the pathogens that abound on dead and rotting animals.

The bat version of the STING protein helps dampen the mammals' immune response to infection, researchers have found.

Scientists are searching for signatures of mammals within the blood meals of the invertebrates.

Experiments to cultivate greens on the International Space Station and in simulated Martian environments pave the way for feeding crews during deep space missions.

Research suggests that the invasive, all-female Procambarus virginalis originated in a German aquarium back in the 1990s.

Researchers at the Rare Genomics Institute look at how families finance the cost of diagnostic exome sequencing.