The Amazon molly reproduces without sex. A genomic copy-and-paste trick called gene conversion may explain how it avoids evolutionary meltdown.

Nathan Chasing Horse’s sentencing for sexual assaults against Indigenous women and girls has been pushed back by a week.

An analysis of ancient and modern DNA suggests the extent of convergent evolution in different peoples around the world is even greater than we thought ...

Live Science spoke with Rob Dunn, an applied ecologist and author of the book "The Call of the Honeyguide," about "mutualism" — how different species team up for their mutual benefit — and how humans ...

From pangolin scales to elephant tusks, from African gray parrots to manatees, the illicit trade in wildlife products and ...

Here are 10 animals that have some of the highest levels of testosterone and the impact it has on their behavior and characteristics.

In the kitchen of UC Davis Professor Emerita Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, overlooking a long dining table, hangs a painting by artist Isabella Kirkland.

Most of us think lions, sharks, and bears are the world's deadliest animals. Surprisingly, the creatures claiming hundreds of thousands of human lives each year aren't apex predators with massive ...

Humans like to believe we invented agriculture - but ants beat us by millions of years. Leafcutter ants cultivate fungus as their primary food source, carefully harvesting leaves to sustain ...

An animal rights group filed a lawsuit seeking legal recognition and freedom for beagles at Ridglan Farms. Activists are using habeas corpus, a legal tool traditionally reserved for humans, to ...

MADISON (WKOW) — The Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) and the Animal Activist Legal Defense Project (AALDP) have filed a lawsuit in Dane County Circuit Court seeking the release of about 2,000 beagle ...