By combining data on all known bird species, this tree is the most impressive snapshot yet of one of Earth’s most ...

The project also shows that mammoths in the Modern Late Pleistocene fell into three genetic groups, all of which shared a most recent common ancestor around 780,000 years ago. Notably, this loosely ...

The number of species does not increase evenly when going from local ecosystems to continental scales—a phenomenon ecologists ...

Bandai Namco isn't necessarily known for its RPGs, but it's had a number of sleeper hits and a few games that have become all ...

April 25 is International DNA Day, and it marks the completion of a decade-long project to sequence the DNA of Hong Kong's ...

Bird beaks come in almost every shape and size—from the straw-like beak of a hummingbird to the slicing, knife-like beak of ...

Could aquatic mammals, such as whales, orcas, and bottlenose dolphins, ever evolve to live on land again? It seems the chances of this are actually vanishingly small, as the adaptations that allow ...

However, the adaptive value, mechanistic diversity, and evolution of epigenome-targeted DNA repair systems across the tree of life remain unresolved. Here, we investigated the evolution of histone ...

though its precise evolutionary history remains unresolved. In this study, we constructed a time-calibrated phylogenetic tree of cyanobacteria to trace the evolutionary trajectory of cpNDH-1. By ...