Baleen whales include the blue whale, the largest animal ever known.

Until a few years ago, it was impossible to create new lager beer.

Research has shown cats become distressed and want more attention when a fellow pet dies.

New research reveals that the human heart has evolved distinct structural and functional traits that set it apart from our closest great ape relatives.

The organism from which all modern life is descended is called the last universal common ancestor - and scientists are still trying to figure out what it was like.

Reduced to its essence, the process of natural selection would look a lot like play.

Brains evolve with body size according to a simple rule. Exceptions to that rule include our own species with enormous brains.

The experience of subjective awareness may have evolved to enable the communication of privately experienced ideas and feelings.