"We are watching evolution happen." Scientists stunned by 'remarkable' phenomenon found in trees threatened by deadly disease: 'Our new findings give us new hope' first appeared on The Cool Down.

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

Science Biology Evolution Foraging in trees might have pushed human ancestors to walk on two feet ...

Some fruit trees are notorious for producing a big crop one year and a much smaller crop the next. Here's what to know and ...

Human testicles are much smaller, in proportion, to some of our primate cousins. Evolution can tell us why. But the size of ...

Science Biology Evolution Our tree-climbing ancestors evolved our abilities to throw far and reach high Football season really started 20 million years ago with this evolutionary quirk. Laura Baisas ...

An international team has been able to reconstruct the evolutionary tree of a major group of snakes, Elapoidea, that has proved to be a significant step towards the construction of a complete Tree ...

A team of researchers from the Bird 10,000 Genomes (B10K) consortium, initiated by Professor ZHANG Guojie of Centre for Evolutionary & Organismal Biology at Zhejiang University and ...

More information: Rodolfo S. Probst et al, Evolutionary déjà vu? A case of convergent evolution in an ant–plant association, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (2024).

Birds are the most diverse land vertebrate on the planet, and now scientists have constructed a complete evolutionary tree of the 11,000 or so known species. This data came from hundreds of ...

By sequencing an enormous amount of data, a group of hundreds of researchers has gained new insights into how flowers evolved on Earth.