Lord of the Flies has become such a shorthand for a descent into savagery, a warning of what lies beneath the surface of ...

Evolution often involves losing traits like eyesight or flight when they are no longer advantageous, demonstrating a focus on efficiency and adaptation. Cavefish lose eyes through epigenetic changes, ...

We humans have long viewed ourselves as the pinnacle of evolution. People label other species as “primitive” or “ancient” and ...

For humans, feces are last on the list of things we’d place near our mouth. In the animal world, that reaction does not ...

This football-sized creature could grind its teeth like a hard-core plant-eater, back before that was really a thing — and it ...

Dolphins developed streamlined bodies and other adaptations when they transitioned from land to water 50 million years ago. Credit: Pexels.com.

A study on worms led by researchers from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in the US has uncovered a previously ...

In the natural world, visible ears are not the only path to perception. While there are some animals that do not have visible means of receiving auditory perception due to the absence of ears, others ...

Wombats might be the only animals with cube-shaped scats, but there are plenty of other strange bowel movements being performed by Australian animals.

Recent 2025 studies reveal the biological functions behind seemingly strange animal behaviors. From chimpanzees using plants as medicine and orcas coordinating hunts with dolphins, to eagles gathering ...