An international collaboration has published groundbreaking research, shedding light on the most significant increase in complexity in the history of life's evolution on Earth: the origin of the ...

In the temperate forests of the Northern Hemisphere, a quiet but powerful story has been unfolding for nearly 60 million ...

Scientists link baker’s yeast evolution to ancient human movements, suggesting we’ve been shaping microbial life far longer ...

“An oak is the best tree to choose because it is the No. 1 plant for supporting the food web, ” says University of Delaware ...

HE spent his formative years studying at the University of Edinburgh before publishing his ground-breaking work which changed the accepted wisdom about how species evolved. Now, the full personal ...

A new comparison and analysis of the genomes of species in the genus Malus, which includes the domesticated apple and its ...

Researchers examine and trace apple DNA. Learn how the apple species trace their evolutionary roots back to Asia almost 56 million years ago.

Imagine stumbling upon a hidden vault that preserves whispers from a world over half a billion years ago—a time when life on ...

Her quest to say ‘thank you’ led to the colonel who ran her refugee camp and the aircraft maintainer who may have loaded her ...

The carnivorous "bone collector" caterpillar is the only known species of its kind, researchers say, and its ancient lineage ...

A study from the University of Leicester describes a newly identified fossil species that is 444 million years old, with its ...