Activity levels and daytime sleepiness can be combined into a ‘behavioural clock’ that predicts whether a fish will have a short life or a long one.

A potted scarlet monkeyflower would die within a few days without water. But multiple natural populations of the species survived an extreme, four-year drought in California, and researchers now know ...

You will be redirected to our submission process. Reproduction forms the foundation for the sustainability of fish populations, driving both the productivity of global aquaculture and the conservation ...

Researchers say the remarkable discoveries were made using fossils, photos, and the knowledge of Indigenous communities. The ...

The Amazon molly reproduces without sex. A genomic copy-and-paste trick called gene conversion may explain how it avoids evolutionary meltdown.

Amazon mollies don't need a man, and never will. A new study finds they can purge and repair genetic mutations that would ...

Partula snails all but vanished from Polynesia after the arrival of a carnivorous foreign snail. But a global alliance of zoos has worked to bring them back.

The discovery of two ancient fish in South China has re-written what we thought we knew about the evolution of early vertebrates.

DNA is revealing that many animals once thought to be a single species may actually be several hidden ones. But research on ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

Endangered California condors, absent from the skies of far Northern California and the Pacific Northwest for roughly a century, are now breeding and expanding their range in the region’s ancient ...