Trees get most of the love, but diatoms, a group of photosynthetic microalgae, produce 20% of Earth's oxygen and are the ...

Thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California show no signs of mammals and birds evolving in response to ...

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 studies ...

The internal structures of Maba 1 show a combination of morphological features found in various species,” scientists stated ...

A photo shows the yellow-gray coloring of the new species. Its fins are “pale pink,” and its sides have “bright green stripes ...

Large-scale comparison of gene families across 1154 Saccharomycotina genomes revealed that gene gains and losses drive yeast ...

The Chicago Archaeopteryx provides rare 3D insights into skull evolution, soft tissue structure, and the first evidence of ...

The biosynthesis of the great variety of natural plant products has not yet been elucidated for many medically interesting ...

A cutting-edge technique for analyzing fossil tooth enamel is revealing remarkable new information about 2 million-year-old ...

First detected in 2015, gravitational waves may not have had a direct hand in human evolution, but it certainly helped set ...

More than a decade after his 'Origin of Species', Darwin found courage to publish ideas he had once only hinted at. In 'The Descent of Man' he presented an unequivocal account of human evolution.