Researchers may have found the clearest example yet of human-induced evolution, thanks to deforestation in New Zealand.

New Zealand’s native stoneflies changed color due to deforestation. This reveals humans' impact on stoneflies evolution.

A new study shows that rapid loss of forests has prompted a colour change in stoneflies, caused by a genetic mutation. This ...

In a stark example of the impact of human activity on the world around us, scientists are reporting that Aotearoa New Zealand ...

Human-driven bird extinctions over the last 130,000 years have cut avian functional diversity and erased 3 billion years of ...

Just published in the journal Science, the University of Otago study provides arguably the world’s most clear-cut case of animal evolution in response to change made by humans. Co-author Professor Jon ...

But it may relay enough to influence living things and their evolution ... to chase the hypothesis that insects actively use ...

A new study proposes that human culture’s unique power lies not in its ability to accumulate knowledge, as once thought, but ...

In her latest show at Seoul’s Leeum Museum, she transforms the space into a boundless laboratory, where natural processes and ...

Certainly, the evidence for change is everywhere. As the planet warms, species’ ranges are shifting and their life cycles are ...