A new study suggests the platypus and echidna — the only egg-laying mammals — had a water-dwelling ancestor. The finding ...

Researchers have shed new light on how the environment promotes the generation of new species. A study led by Dr. Benjamin ...

Life depends on genes being switched on and off at exactly the right time. Even the simplest living organisms do this, but usually over short distances across the DNA sequence, with the on/off switch ...

Comb jellies "could repurpose [their] genetic toolkit in different ways like a Swiss knife," said the researchers.

The ancestor of the virus that causes COVID-19 left its point of origin in Western China or Northern Laos just several years ...

He traces the history of ERP and explains how it has evolved with the coming of big data, the cloud and artificial intelligence. ERP, we learn, is quite a different animal today. Hosted by Bob Bowman, ...

Learn about the activation and deactivation of genes over long distances of DNA - an ability that emerged in comb jellies and ...

Despite being separated by millions of years of evolution, dogs and cats have evolved similar skull shapes due to ...

The repeated evolution of huge birds is part of the dinosaurian legacy. Beaked birds were the only dinosaurs to have survived ...

Domestication has made cats and dogs more diverse, but also curiously alike – with serious implications for their health and ...

But when the researchers peered inside, they saw something different ... evolved from land animals and share lineage with hippos. But there are few examples that show evolution from water ...

While we may look at ourselves in mirrors everyday, what about animals? Read here to learn about if animals can see ...