Biologists studying convergent evolution — the process where unrelated species develop similar traits — suggest that ...

What initially appears to be a confusing video of a moth-hummingbird hybrid creature is actually a perfect excuse for us to explain an intriguing evolutionary phenomenon. The creature is the ...

Over millions of years, nature has reinvented the crab at least five separate times across various lineages of crustaceans in ...

The work, according to the team lead, demonstrates strong potential of AI technology in resolving complex biological issues.

Scientists discover the key to how functions such as echolocation may evolve independently as different creatures adapt to ...

"This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature"--Verso of title page. Outgrowth of and selected papers presented at the 19th Evolutionary Biology Meeting, held in September 2015, in Marseille, ...

In a new study, scientists have shown that chemical receptors that plants use to recognize nitrogen-fixing bacteria have developed the same function independently on at least three separate occasions ...