Molecules from the 20-million-year-old teeth of a rhino relative are among the oldest ever sequenced, opening tantalizing ...

Four cultural stewards of sustainability unpack how indigo embodies Black fashion’s legacy of labor, innovation, and enduring ...

“Ancient DNA has produced a revolution in our understanding of recent human origins,” said Daniel Green, field program ...

The key change is an ancient defense system. Basically, these tomatoes are manufacturing a version of an alkaloid whose ...

Scientists debate whether true reverse evolution is possible, but this species of tomatoes on the western Galápagos Islands ...

The lush, tropical regions of Central and South America have long dazzled scientists with their plant diversity. These ...

New research claims that tomato plants in the Galápagos might actually be de-evolving and picking up ancient traits.

A team of researchers led by Prof. Wang Wei from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IBCAS) has revealed how unique native plant life on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) has ...

Two life forms living together helped spark the evolution of all complex life. By learning to appreciate this process more ...

In the temperate forests of the Northern Hemisphere, a quiet but powerful story has been unfolding for nearly 60 million years. It’s a story written in the DNA of a fruit so familiar that its history ...

National Museum of Natural History Scientists Discover That Ancient Insects Perfected Their Plant Palates 165 Million Years Ago The findings reveal that insects developed modern patterns of ...

But after centuries of work examining plant structures —and more recently, plant DNA— botanists have reached a general consensus on the broad evolutionary history of plants.