Biology

Lyudmila Trut devoted her life to studying the process of domestication by selectively breeding friendly foxes

Trump’s anti-immigrant good-gene-bad-gene screeds are nothing but factless eugenics for a new era

Half a century after its discovery, this iconic fossil remains central to our understanding of human origins

Anti-immigrant rhetoric in the U.S. comes straight out of the playbook of eugenics, deeply dishonest scientism that falsely claims that criminality, poverty and a host of other ills are all genetically inherited

New work listens in on bird dreams

Fossil and gene discoveries paint an ever-more-intertwined history of humans combining with vanished species like Neandertals

Bacteria can degrade particularly tough PFAS varieties

Two injured sea creatures merged to form a “Franken-jelly”

In a dense Republic of Congo rainforest, scientists have mapped a network of strangely open clearings where wild beasts go to eat and hang out

Human anatomy is delightfully varied, but female athletes are heavily criticized for not conforming to socially accepted bodily norms

A species of legged fish uses taste receptors to search for hidden prey, providing an ideal window for scientists to study the emergence of new evolutionary traits

Looking silly when they run saves birds energy—and some dinosaurs may have done the same