Australian and Dutch researchers have uncovered a remarkable evolutionary adaptation in birds that could hold vital clues for ...

The first physical evidence of Roman gladiators fighting animals has been found in skeletal remains from England ...

In a groundbreaking study, scientists have created a mouse using stem cells powered by genes that originated from ancient ...

Researchers have developed a method to extract living cells from feces that they say could help conservationists better understand the genetic diversity of wildlife — and in the long run, could be ...

When subjected to physical pressure, archaea - ancient single-celled organisms - form multicellular structures.

She said: "This is exciting to us because it confirms that the genes and gene families that we identified using our comparative genomics approach really do cause an animal to have a woolly coat ...

Despite their superficial similarity to bacteria, their genetic makeup has long suggested a closer evolutionary relationship with eukaryotes, the domain encompassing plants and animals ... questions ...

A multimillion-dollar lab manufactured in just months, in which teams are working on bringing back four long-extinct animals the way another company might make cookies, chips, dips, and crackers ...

A study from the Marine Biological Laboratory highlights how cooperative feeding by Stentor, a large unicellular organism, might have influenced the evolution of multicellular life. The research ...

This trumpet-shaped organism is among the largest unicellular organisms, stretching as long as a sharpened pencil tip. But sometimes it has a hard time vacuuming up the swimming bacteria and ...

I told them I already had an adult Tapirus indicus, shot at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo many years earlier, and that I’d never finish the Photo Ark if I documented all the baby animals.