Unlike their larger striped cousins, spotted skunks display complex patterns of white spots ... losing both pigmentation and eyes through evolutionary adaptation to their subterranean environment.

Climate-change adaptation encompasses a broad range of human policies and activities primarily intended to reduce the risks posed by climate change. It includes both realised and expected risks.

Investigating the signatures of natural selection can help elucidate the evolutionary adaptations that have allowed humans to withstand some of our most complex and challenging selective agents.

Sometimes the best way to be a hero is to do nothing at all. Those baby bunnies in your lawn might need rescuing — but more than likely their mother is close by and will return to feed them soon.