This newly found organism doesn’t act like a virus or a cell, and that could change everything we know about biology.

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

Knights Peak and Primal Game Studio have unveiled a new trailer that showcases the remarkable development of Mandragora: ...

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

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion ...

Scientists reveal that a key evolutionary theory about rapid change is wrong, caused mainly by statistical noise in the data.

Durham University researchers discover Youti yuanshi, a fossil revealing the ancient ancestors of insects and their evolution ...

Study resolves diatom tree of life, revealing rapid speciation 170 million years ago. ... "It creates lots of fodder for evolution because now you've duplicated all the genetic material.

Scientists Mapped the Evolution of 11,000 Bird Species to Build the Avian Tree of Life By combining data on all known bird species, this tree is the most impressive snapshot yet of one of Earth ...