Devin Reese

Most vertebrates, plants, and fungi reproduce sexually, requiring the sex cells of two individual parents to …

Pairs team up to endure food scarcity

Just when you think sea spiders couldn't get any more unique...

It gives them a leg up in survival

They were hiding in plain sight among their close relatives

Orangutans learn by watching, then trying

Leeches are common and widespread in Florida. Some eat invertebrates and others suck blood, mostly of vertebr…

It's hard to say, but we're definitely exposing them to our monoamine drugs

Placoderms evolved unique approaches to the first-ever vertebrate jaws

Putting a dent in dolphins' reputation as the "good guys of the sea"

Tanzania's Nyasasaurus may not have been the first dinosaur on Earth after all

Social learning boosts feeding success of young'uns

Thanks to a graduate student who is a "lifelong Swiftie"

This belemnite swam in what used to be Wyoming seas

A preserved feather provides some essential clues

It's meant to help lure prey

It's a remarkable act of impulse control

There's a lot of role reversal happening here

Sex reversal may not be an evolutionary dead end after all

We now know who is responsible for them, but why they're doing it is still up for debate

Its fossils show a streamlined body, long legs, and large nostrils, suggesting an animal that adapted to a li…

Obviously, there were no recording devices, let alone humans, 165 million years ago, but there were katydids,…

New research seeks to confirm the identity of tropical lampreys that don't have the taste for blood

Multiples of immune proteins give them an edge in fixing cell damage