A scientist’s six-year backyard experiment strengthens the scenario for evolutionary changes due to industrial pollution.

Microscopic structures in an iconic fossil feather suggest that it was the color of a crow.

The devastating fungus has already stripped shrubbery down to sticks in Europe and New Zealand.

Outrageous-looking head spikes on the male of the species may not cost much in evolutionary terms. (p. 10)

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As of January 1, people who classify new plant, algae and fungus species can do it in English and online.

Fish embryos proved surprisingly vulnerable to a 2007 spill in San Francisco Bay. (p. 14)

Trained on one-two-three, the birds can apply the rule of numerical order to such lofty figures as five and nine. (p. 11)