The freezer in the laboratory of Professor of Mycorrhizal Studies Leho Tedersoo contains DNA samples of tens of thousands of ...

Using these trees, we can reconstruct past events that triggered the evolution of new species and the extinction of others. Figure 3: A dendrogram redrawn from a portion of the avian tree of life ...

Footprints from Australia show reptiles may have evolved 35 million years earlier than thought, changing the timeline of ...

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, as well as Rocky Vista University (U.S.), show that ...

The prevalence and diversity of diatoms have made them highly successful, suggesting the evolutionary history of diatoms is worth understanding as an important piece of the larger puzzle of life ...

Oakmont Country Club's transformation through extensive tree removal has sparked debate in the golfing community. This trend redefined the course's legendary challenge, balancing aesthetics and ...

A novel suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to rewrite notions of time and evolution.

Durham University researchers discover Youti yuanshi, a fossil revealing the ancient ancestors of insects and their evolution ...

Life’s ultimate origin will never be known, but researchers are probing the possibilities—for Earth and elsewhere.

FORKS, Wash. — In Kalaloch, on the Washington coast, people from all over the world come to stand in wonder and take pictures ...

A new study unexpectedly reveals that cells thrive on chaos. It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about the behavior ...

Scientists have discovered that supergenes - clusters of tightly linked DNA - help drive the explosive evolution of cichlid ...