The scent of blooming flowers and fresh plant life is not just a perk of springtime; it is a key driver in the survival and ...

Scientists have helped to construct a detailed timeline for bacterial evolution, suggesting some bacteria used oxygen long before evolving the ability to produce it through photosynthesis.

Modern humans can be recognized by their smaller facial structure when compared with Neanderthals and other hominin ancestors ...

Until now, it’s been very hard for scientists to establish a detailed timeline of the early evolution of bacteria.

A new study in Cell reveals that species living miles beneath the ocean’s surface have independently evolved the same genetic ...

Genomes sequenced from 7,000-year-old mummies in the Sahara have revealed a previously unknown population that inhabited the ...

The Leyte Chorus Frog is a rare, non-reproducing hybrid caused by deforestation-driven overlap between two frog species, ...

Bacteria may have adapted to oxygen well before Earth’s atmosphere was saturated with it, according to a new study. Researchers who traced microbial evolution over billions of years – using machine ...

In a new study published in Science, researchers from the Model-Based Evolutionary Genomics Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) and their international collaborators have ...

Fish don’t exist. In her novel “Why Fish Don’t Exist,” Lulu Miller points out that a true “fish” clade containing an ancestor ...

Tech is evolving too fast for human biology. Mental health trends show we're struggling. To survive, we must speed up ...