Chimpanzees select materials for tools based on flexibility, revealing early engineering instincts linked to human tool ...

One thing geology teaches us about is the existence of another monumental event in the history of Earth, 2.4 billion years ...

Young plants that resist disease grow fewer flowers later, limiting their reproduction. Adult plants resist disease without this cost.

For 15 years, Kuhlow, a 51-year-old former Stony Brook microbiology researcher, has been logging observations of leaf and bud appearances — in his own garden, or farther afield on a hike — into a ...

Modern agriculture and fishing methods are reshaping landscapes and seascapes so dramatically that entire ecosystems are ...

Scientists have helped to construct a detailed timeline for bacterial evolution, suggesting some bacteria used oxygen long before evolving the ability to produce it through photosynthesis.

Scientist Gaurav Srivastava, who was part of the research, said that the discovery has helped in understanding the evolution of bamboos.

Modern continental rocks carry chemical signatures from the very start of our planet's history, challenging current theories about plate tectonics.

Newly-identified dinosaur footprints on the Isle of Skye reveal herbivores and carnivores coexisted at freshwater lagoons some 167 million years ago. A University of Edinburgh team analysed 131 ...

In a new study published in Science, researchers from the Model-Based Evolutionary Genomics Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) and their international collaborators have ...

Researchers suggest that ground-based mammals fared better than their arboreal relatives during the end-Cretaceous extinction ...