Alien plants and animals cost Europe over $1.5 trillion in the last six decades, according to a new study, indicating the ...

A chromosome glitch in beetleweed reveals how genome doubling can drive rapid plant evolution and create new species in real ...

A fossil from British Columbia, originally discovered in the 80s, has finally been identified as a new species named ...

A new study has provided fresh insights into how animals such as the woolly mammoth, musk ox and arctic fox evolved to ...

Cold-adapted animals started to evolve 2.6 million years ago when the permanent ice at the poles became more prevalent. There followed a time when the continental ice sheets expanded and contracted ...

A groundbreaking study led by researchers from the University of Oxford and published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution ...

Understanding the origin of the building block of all animal and plant life may lead to more insights about life on Earth and ...

Seed plants, such as soybeans, store large amounts of protein in specialized organelles called protein storage vacuoles.

Breakthrough study reveals how woolly mammoths and Arctic animals evolved their cold-weather superpowers over 3 million years ...

Researchers describe cases of chimps tending to others’ wounds, as well as a chimp that freed another from a snare ...

A new report published Tuesday in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution provides fresh clues on the origin of human ...

Many plants smell "good" — to humans that is — but some go several steps in the other direction, presenting themselves to the ...