Researchers have found a fish with a strange feature that makes it look almost like it has a human smile. Hidden beneath the ...

The Noronha skink arrived on the island millions of years ago from Africa, likely on floating masses of vegetation carried by ...

As Chris Packham gears up for his new TV show, Evolution, he tells Penny Sarchet why understanding the latest evolutionary ...

Have you ever wondered why human ears are built the way they are, and how they came to be? Science has yet to fully uncover ...

Environmental DNA contained in a small sample of water, sand or even air can reveal the presence of people, wildlife and ...

How did the elephant become so big? Why do dolphins have such a huge brain? These are just some of the puzzles that Chris Packham hopes to solve in his new BBC TV series, Evolution. Each episode in ...

This fish is a gold mine of knowledge for scientists – since the same species evolved in such vastly different environments, comparing the two offers insights into how evolution and how behaviour is ...

The Multi-Sensory Convergence Ladder: As signals ascend deeper into the fish’s forebrain, specifically into a structure called the pallium, single-sense neurons give way to multi-sensory cells. This ...

Turns out, you just need to catch a boat from Ventura and head about an hour offshore to Channel Islands National Park, where nature has been running its own private laboratory for thousands of years.

Line up the brains of a fish, bird and a mammal, and something unexpected comes up. You do not see three different answers to the problem of making sense of the world. You see one answer, tilted three ...

A tiny zebrafish, separated from us by more than 400 million years of evolution, sorts and then combines its senses in the ...