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Research in recent years has finally revealed the genius of dogs.

The symbiotic relationship between Obama and Christie and in nature.

Recent projects that exemplify an emerging revolution in how we interact with and understand a dynamic and complex planet.

What excites paleontologists just as much as finding a nice, old dinosaur skeleton? Finding a nice, old dinosaur dung heap, of course.

Drug-producing plants easier to spot with a knowledge of evolutionary history.

Darwin still had time to puzzle out a mystery that would continue to plague biologists for hundreds of years: how did such a large mammal get to an island so far out to sea? Even more perplexing: how did it become the only one that did?

How and why people join fraternities, sports teams, and companies. When I was invited to give an Authors@Google talk in 2012, I thought it made sense to talk about “hive psychology.” Google is a very hivish place – and I mean that in a good way.

Scientists explored new solutions from an unusual source: Darwin's theory of evolution.Education isn’t working well in America, despite billions of dollars and everyone’s best intentions. Not too long ago, scientists explored new solutions from an unusual source: Darwin’s theory of evolution.

Our apparent dominance over evolutionary forces as an absolute victory seems as out of touch as a dancing killer whale in a swimming pool. At the very least, we should stop pretending that living the way we do now is ‘normal’ for humans, just as we are starting to realize that there’s nothing normal about an orca living among strangers in a pool and forced to do ridiculous tricks in front of thousands of screaming kids to get food.

An international group of paleontologists revealed in <em>Nature Communications</em> that, at one point during the late Miocene, at least seven crocodylic species lived sympatrically.