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

Have you ever looked into the mirror and wondered just how deeply your roots stretch back in the tree of life? It might ...

Mutations fuel evolution while also causing diseases like cancer. Epigenome-targeted DNA repair can help organisms protect important genomic regions from mutation. However, the adaptive value, ...

Enteroviruses are a group of viruses that cause everything from the common cold to meningitis, polio, type 1 diabetes, and ...

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

A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has identified a ...

Genesis 3 suggests that eating the fruit from the Tree of Life gave eternal life. After the Fall, God prevented access to the tree by posting two cherubs at the entrance to the garden. Humans should ...

Fish don’t exist. In her novel “Why Fish Don’t Exist,” Lulu Miller points out that a true “fish” clade containing an ancestor and all its descendants is an unrealizable dream, awkwardly grouping ...

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A bizarre ancient life-form, considered to be the first giant organism to live on land, may belong to a totally unknown branch of the tree of life ... of eukaryotes," the researchers wrote. "Given the ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...