Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers.

In the damp understory of forests in Taiwan, mainland Japan, and Okinawa, a plant called Balanophora can fool you at first ...

High in the forest canopy, one genus of snake learned how to solve the problem of flight without wings. Here’s how, according ...

Don't toss that supermarket lemon. Learn how to grow lemon trees (Citrus x limon) from seeds to produce one of the most fragrant flowering trees around.

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the ...

A decades-old mix-up in a museum collection led scientists to mistakenly identify a Peruvian poison frog as a new species.

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.