Songbirds on the UCLA campus changed beak shapes during the pandemic, according to a new study. Researchers suspect it might be a case of rapid evolution.

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A new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in ...

A groundbreaking study has found that evolution is not as unpredictable as previously thought, which could allow scientists to explore which genes could be useful to tackle real-world issues such as ...

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The origins of consciousness date back about 540 million years ago, when animal bodies became more complex. Feelings like ...