More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...

Roksana Riddle and Christopher H. Contag from Michigan State University discuss the concept of endosymbiosis, how it has ...

Later, Wacław Szybalski popularized the term in 1974 in reference to genetic engineering, but little did he know that one day ...

Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together.

A newly described plesiosaur fossil from southern Germany is providing crucial evidence about the diversification of these ...

Researchers found that cooperative fluid dynamics between single-celled organisms may have driven the evolution of ...

There's no question that humans have left an indelible mark on the world, but we're also inadvertently steering the evolution ...

New study shows how bird traits like gene makeup and clutch size shape evolution. This may help scientists understand ...

Chimpanzees bear genetic adaptations that help them thrive in their different forest and savannah habitats. Some of the ...

Organelles in cells were originally often independent cells, which were incorporated by host cells and lost their ...

CalCOFI is a long-term, interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral ecosystem research program off the coast of California that holistically studies the physics, biogeochemistry, and biology of the marine ...

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