Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

The completion of a South American lung fish genome sequencing represents one of the most remarkable moments within current ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have decoded the nuclear genome of Amorphochlora amoebiformis, a unicellular marine alga ...

While modern octopuses have DNA that consistently gets reshuffled, resulting in some chromosomal mixing, the researchers ...

Although wolf-canine interbreeding has been considered extremely rare, the latest research shows that many present-day ...

A major evolutionary theory says most genetic changes don’t really matter, but new evidence suggests that’s not true. Researchers found that helpful mutations happen surprisingly often. The twist is ...

Four billion years ago, Earth was violent, hot, and unstable. Yet new research suggests that by then, life had already ...

“Many people equate plants with photosynthesis, yet Balanophora illustrates that being a plant does not require being green,” ...

Researchers find Apennine brown bears evolved into a smaller, less aggressive animal after centuries of coexistence with ...