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What will Earth look like 250 million years from now? In this video, we journey into the deep future to explore a day on our ...
New research uncovers reversal of evolution in island plants. On the younger, volcanic islands of the Galápagos, wild tomato ...
Some fruit trees are notorious for producing a big crop one year and a much smaller crop the next. Here's what to know and what you can do about it.
A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...
As jewelflowers spread into California from the desert Southwest over the past couple of million years, they settled in ...
It’s hard not to relate to the little insects that carnivorous plants like the Cape sundew, Venus flytraps and pitcher plants ...
Researchers at the ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute (New Delhi, India) investigated the endogenous levels of gibberellins (GAs) at six different developmental stages and four time points in ...
The study of biogeography and paleoecology during the Mesozoic-Cenozoic era provides essential insights into how past ...
Wild tomatoes in the Galápagos may be reversing evolution—reawakening ancient traits, surprising scientists at UC Riverside.
Polyploidy, or whole-genome duplication (WGD), is a major mechanism of genome evolution across the tree of life and is ...
Scientists reconstructed 500 million years of evolutionary history to reveal which came first: colorful signals or the color ...
Some species have been known to circle back to lost traits, but it's rare and not usually though the same genetic lines.