A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

For thousands of years, humans have selectively bred dogs to fulfill specific roles, ranging from guarding and hunting to ...

Polyploidy, or whole-genome duplication (WGD), is a major mechanism of genome evolution across the tree of life and is ...

It’s hard not to relate to the little insects that carnivorous plants like the Cape sundew, Venus flytraps and pitcher plants ...

With hundreds of thousands of plant species in the world today, researchers at the University of Arizona are building a road map of the history and evolution of plant life through gene sequencing.

The Yemeni island of Socotra was largely unspoiled, its few guests arriving to trade for aromatic frankincense. Now it is ...

As jewelflowers spread into California from the desert Southwest over the past couple of million years, they settled in ...

Chunks of flipped DNA appear to accelerate evolution in fish. This discovery could reshape our understanding of how ...

Wild tomatoes in the Galápagos may be reversing evolution—reawakening ancient traits, surprising scientists at UC Riverside.

Wall brown butterflies adapt quickly through evolution as the climate warms and they shift northward. They grow faster and ...