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 ...

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 ...

For Mike Barker, a UA professor and one of the 1KP project’s lead authors, examining the genomes of certain plants allows researchers to answer important questions about the evolution of plant life.

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 ...

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

Native plants are more than just part of the scenery. They’re the backbone of functioning ecosystems — especially for native birds and insects. When these plants disappear, so do the species that ...