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

The author provides a general overview of the molecular data used to reconstruct the avian tree of life, summarizes some highlights of the ensuing controversies, and reveals those taxonomic ...

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

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

Study resolves diatom tree of life, revealing rapid speciation 170 million years ago. ... "It creates lots of fodder for evolution because now you've duplicated all the genetic material.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Life is thought to have begun when RNA began replicating itself, and researchers have got close to achieving this in the lab ...