From toddlers in daycare to seedlings in forests, young organisms tend to get sick more easily than adults—a phenomenon that ...

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.

Until now, it’s been very hard for scientists to establish a detailed timeline of the early evolution of bacteria.

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 ...

Prince Charles’s Point on Skye’s Trotternish Peninsula is one of the most extensive dinosaur track sites in Scotland.

Three million tons of guar beans are processed annually to produce guar gum. But what happens to the protein-rich meal left ...

Tech is evolving too fast for human biology. Mental health trends show we're struggling. To survive, we must speed up ...

Camouflage is a common defensive strategy among animals. By modifying their coloration and patterning, animals evade ...