The Leyte Chorus Frog is a rare, non-reproducing hybrid caused by deforestation-driven overlap between two frog species, ...
Fish don’t exist. In her novel “Why Fish Don’t Exist,” Lulu Miller points out that a true “fish” clade containing an ancestor ...
It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He ...
A new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to ...
Professor Janis said, "The vegetational habitat was more important for the course of Cretaceous mammalian evolution than any ...
The almendro tree may have evolved to attract lightning, which helps clear more space for it to grow, according to new ...
New study shows how bird traits like gene makeup and clutch size shape evolution. This may help scientists understand ...
A newly identified parasitic wasp that buzzed and flew among dinosaurs 99 million years ago evolved a bizarre mechanism, ...
Scientists have debated where Prototaxites belong in the tree of life for over a century, but now a new study suggests it ...
William Murphy, Ph.D., from the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has been named the 2025 SEC Professor of the Year.
Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same ...
The researchers also studied fossils of extinct fishes dating back almost 400 million years and saw evidence that some of the oldest jawed fishes had bones with joint cavities for articulated ...