Previously believed to be plant or fungi, these giant organisms may have been a now-extinct fourth type of life.

28, 2025 — Why do some plants thrive in specific regions but ... Scientists Uncover Key Mechanism in Evolution: Whole-Genome Duplication Drives Long-Term Adaptation Mar. 26, 2025 — Scientists ...

New study shows how bird traits like gene makeup and clutch size shape evolution. This may help scientists understand ...

Scientists in the Galápagos discover yellow warblers living near traffic exhibit the bird version of "road rage." ...

Mollusks, one of the largest and most diverse animal phyla ... A major theme in the evolution of mollusks is the extent of convergent evolution and character shifts in shorter time scales. For example ...

Plant behavior may seem rather boring compared with the frenetic excesses of animals. Yet the lives of our vegetable friends, ...

Evolution describes changes in inherited ... of speciation and extinction to understand how contemporary animal and plant species are faring today and how they will fare in the future.

Yet Cuvier rejected the idea of organic evolution. He was an essentialist, convinced that plants and ... There was no scale of perfection, in Cuvier's view, because each animal was perfectly ...

Now, a research team has compared algae and plants that span 600 million years of independent evolution and pinpointed a shared stress response network using advanced bioinformatic methods.

But while plant ... Evolution of complexity in the volvocine algae: Transitions in individuality through Darwin's eye. Evolution 62, 436–451 (2008). King, N. The unicellular ancestry of animal ...

How have animal skeletons adapted over thousands of years of evolution? In this short film for primary schools Martin Hughes-Games looks at the skeletons of animals and humans and explains how and ...