In the temperate forests of the Northern Hemisphere, a quiet but powerful story has been unfolding for nearly 60 million ...

The story of primates is a tale of incredible variety and ancient roots, told through the lens of science, DNA, and time ...

An international collaboration between four scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published new research in ...

Laboratory experiments have coaxed simple molecules into states that naturally become more complex, hinting at the origins of ...

While the endosymbiotic theory is widely accepted, the billions of years that have passed since the fusion of an Archaea and a Bacteria have resulted in a lack of evolutionary intermediates in the ...

This has made it very hard for scientists to establish a timeline of their early evolution ... to layer on dates to the bacterial tree of life. We started by training an artificial intelligence ...

Bird beaks come in almost every shape and size—from the straw-like beak of a hummingbird to the slicing, knife-like beak of ...

Imagine stepping back in time, to an ancient world where the skies were stormy and the land crackled with unpredictable ...

Researchers found LUCA, our earliest common ancestor, lived 4.2 billion years ago. It had a complex biology, affecting its ...

In Panama’s dense lowland jungle, a tropical species called Dipteryx oleifera —known locally as almendro or the tonka bean ...