Early angiosperms represent a pivotal chapter in plant evolution, marked by rapid diversification and profound ecological impact during the Early Cretaceous. These flowering plants, distinguished by ...

Decapod crustaceans represent one of the most diverse and ecologically significant groups of marine and freshwater organisms. Their evolutionary history, documented by an abundant fossil record, ...

New research from the University of Oxford has provided fresh insights into how bird songs evolve over time, revealing a significant role for population dynamics in shaping song diversity and change.

There are a variety of methods that have been established to curtail the spread of infectious disease, from isolation or donning of PPE to prevent human-to-human transmission, to culling infected ...

The diversity of water strider species apparently developed as early as the Cretaceous period, much earlier than previously ...

Editor’s Note (10/8/25): This podcast was edited after posting to remove some incorrect descriptions of research on crickets in Hawaii. Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m ...

Our planet Earth favours diversity. In the beginning of time, in the hours of the Big Bang, there was only energy and gas.