For decades, ever since biologists recognized the potential environmental harms from climate change, they have worried that ...

Animals able to change behaviors but slow to evolve might fare better than previously thought amid climate change.

A study shows evidence of “evolutionary rescue”—a kind of rapid evolution in which organisms genetically adapt to severe ...

Animals that adapt behaviorally may evolve physically more slowly, showing resilience rather than weakness in changing ...

The Wallace Line marks a sharp biological divide between Asian and Australasian species, despite islands being just miles apart. Alfred Russel Wallace identified the boundary in 1859 after observing ...

The ancestors of our furry cats and dogs once looked similar to today's modern mongoose, a mammal with a long body and small, round ears. In fact, all members of the order Carnivora, which includes a ...

New study shows that plants evolve in under five years, but extreme heat still pushes many populations toward extinction.

While biologists have worried about how rare species of plants and animals will cope with a rapidly warming climate, one West Coast flower is giving them hope after showing a remarkable ability to ...

Scientists call for a major acceleration in coral assisted evolution research to help reefs cope with rapidly warming oceans.

Implications for conservation under climate change The approach could help understand and forecast the survival of species endangered by climate change, as extreme events like drought are expected to ...

A version of proposed updates to Iowa’s science education standards — omitting the phrases “climate change” and “biological evolution” — is not the version a 37-member “Iowa Department of Education ...