Ghost lineages reveal themselves through ancient genes that still exist in living beings today.

The island of Guam has a snake problem. Though innocuous enough in appearance – slender with brownish or greenish coloration ...

We humans have long viewed ourselves as the pinnacle of evolution. People label other species as “primitive” or “ancient” and ...

Most people were taught a simple image: monkeys slowly turning into humans. That’s not how evolution works. Humans didn’t ...

A set of ancient human fossils found on Morocco’s Atlantic coast now sits on one of the tightest timelines in African ...

A freshman seminar encourages students to behave differently in the world and feel more passionately about biodiversity.

BEIJING -- Chinese scientists have launched an ambitious international megascience project to decode the genetic blueprint of ...

Flax is a globally important crop valued for its fiber, industrial uses, and omega-3-rich oil, yet incomplete genomic information has long limited efforts to understand and improve its key traits.

Tiny Plant-Eater Has A Brain Case Like Nothing Scientists Have Seen In A Nutshell Advanced brain in a tiny body: Despite being only 18 inches long, Foskeia pelendonum had a surprisingly sophisticated ...

That’s not surprising because house cats share about 95% of their DNA with big cats. All cats belong to the family Felidae. But that family is complicated. I asked my friend Haden Kingrey how house ...

Long before today’s tree-dwelling sloths, a 4-ton giant roamed South America — and it may have stood and fought like a bear.