Will democracy survive the internet? Do we need to choose between Facebook’s surveillance capitalism or democracy? Layered lines of evidence can inform questions like these. When considered together, the evidence gives rise to a concerning picture, as summarized in a recent report for the European Commission that I co-led.

Published in ZooKeys, a recent study revises the Himalayan pit viper group using a combination of fresh and historical DNA, morphology, skeletal anatomy, and ecological observations.

Zeng et al. show that salamanders and chameleons converged on a similar solution to launch ballistic tongues using muscles squeezing a skeletal rod, enabling rapid, single-axis energy transfer. This s...

Whole-genome sequencing of an ancient male Egyptian revealed a mixture of North African Neolithic and eastern Fertile Crescent ancestry, suggesting human migration between Egypt and Mesopotamia by the...

"The hare was lying on the ground moving its four legs jerkily and head with difficulty," researchers said.

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In snakes, predatory attacks on oversized prey are not uncommon. Here, we describe an adult female Vipera berus that likely bit and intended to swallow an oversized young hare, Lepus europaeus. The es...

Pastoralism spread through cultural diffusion into the Green Sahara, where an isolated, distinct North African ancestry persisted.

Synthetic peptides, inspired by the natural defenses of amphibians, demonstrate selective activity against Gram-negative pathogens while sparing the gut microbiota and Gram-positive strains. Rationall...

A 4 °C global temperature increase would push 7.5% of amphibian species beyond their physiological limits.

Assessing how genetic diversity is spatially structured underlies many research questions in evolutionary ecology and contributes to understanding the factors implicated in population declines and ext...