We are lizard biologists, and to do our work we need to catch lizards – never an easy task with such fast, agile creatures. Years ago, one of us was in the Bahamas chasing a typically uncooperative ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The lacy frond of the intermediate wood fern (_Dryopteris intermedia_). Jacob S. Suissa, CC BY-ND There are few forms of the ...

At a time when biodiversity is under severe pressure from human activities, understanding how evolution works is more important than ever. A new study about vole teeth, published in PNAS, reveals that ...

Biologists are closing in on a puzzle that seems to turn classic evolutionary logic inside out, yet may be so common that it deserves to be called a new rule of life. Instead of always purging harmful ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) James T. Stroud, Georgia Institute of Technology and Jonathan Losos, Washington ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jacob S. Suissa, University of Tennessee (THE CONVERSATION) There are few forms of the ...