Computer simulations indicate that the past currents around Madagascar would have allowed the migration of mammals to the island.
Microbial communities in the deep sea are dominated by rare species represented by single to few individuals.
The power law equation that matches the metabolic rates of individual animals also appears to match those for insect colonies.
Tiny geolocators help reveal how the Arctic tern makes a 70,000 km round-trip every year.
With the discovery of Ardi, we now know that knuckle walking evolved separately in gorillas and chimpanzees.
Bornaviruses can also insert their genes into the genomes of mammals.
Even identical twins may not agree that a G-spot exists.
Fossil footprints indicate that the first tetrapods may have evolved millions of years earlier than previously thought.
In California's Jurupa Mountains, there is a very unusual group of tree - a Palmer's oak, which first sprouted from an acorn around 13,000 years ago.
“Starch granules” on surfaces of stone tools dating back to 105,000 years ago suggest that humans were eating grains much earlier than was previously thought.
