Evolution

Synapse genes help cells to communicate in a sponge’s digestive chambers

Fangs evolved over and over because of this groovy process

New research uses night vision to see how nocturnal bees navigate the dark.

They sealed their love with dead bats. Now these researchers are on a mission to save India’s endangered chiropteran species together.

Ice age impressions in limestone show that human ancestors inhabited the area

The rodents’ personalities may help them to secure territory and avoid prey.

The eminent 19th-century physicist argued—wrongly, it turned out—that Earth wasn’t old enough to have let natural selection play out

The greater sac-winged bat develops its own language in much the way we do.

Archaeological finds suggest that people developed numbers tens of thousands of years ago. Scholars are now exploring the first detailed hypotheses about this life-changing invention

A molecule found in the retinas of European robins seems to be able to sense weak magnetic fields, such as that of Earth, after it is exposed to light.

New research finds they fly around on noise-cancelling wings