
Animals
Surprise! Sixteen tiny wasp species found masquerading as one
Scientists used new and old tools to overturn 160-year-old ideas about this wasp. They show you can’t tell a wasp by its looks.
Scientists used new and old tools to overturn 160-year-old ideas about this wasp. They show you can’t tell a wasp by its looks.
The treatment helped frogs grow working limbs useful for swimming, standing and kicking. It’ll be a while before people can do that.
Scientists are teasing out the many ways the spiders’ vision, listening and taste senses differ from ours
People bred these animals — part donkey, part wild ass — some 4,500 years ago, probably for use in fighting wars.
This word refers to a feature of a living thing that helps it better survive in its environment — or the process of that feature evolving in a population.
A cloned ferret named Elizabeth Ann brings genetic diversity to a species that nearly went extinct in the 1980s.
When viruses become more infectious or better able to survive the body’s immune system, they become a type of variant known as a strain.
Some of these tweaks to DNA, however, may have played a role in brain evolution.
Dog puppies outpace wolf pups at engaging with humans, even with less exposure to people, supporting the idea that domestication changed dogs’ brains.
Fossils of baby dinosaurs in northern Alaska challenge the idea that northern dinosaurs only spent their summers in the high Arctic.