Imagine walking through a bustling aquarium, surrounded by the vibrant life of the sea. You pause in front of a tank filled with sleek sharks and shimmering salmon. In a surprising twist of biological ...

Ultimately, the widespread occurrence of SSSB in mammals, especially primates, strongly suggests that such behaviors are ...

Colossal Biosciences made global headlines when they announced that they had successfully brought the dire wolf back from ...

A groundbreaking new study has pushed the timeline of life’s origin further back than previously thought. Researchers have ...

This useful study presents computational analyses of over 5,000 predicted extant and ancestral nitrogenase structures. While the data and some analyses are solid, the study remains incomplete in ...

Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence ...

Instead, according to the Smithsonian Natural History Museum, chimpanzees and humans have evolved independently since splitting from a common ancestor 8-6 million years ago. The oversimplification of ...

Throughout most of human history, evolution progressed slowly. Small genetic changes took thousands of years to permeate populations. Natural selection was intentional, reactive, and gradual.

BEIJING -- Compatriots across the Taiwan Strait will attend events honoring China's legendary ancestor Huangdi, or the Yellow Emperor, on the mainland during the upcoming Qingming Festival ...

For instance, they often lacked mouths or guts. As such, evolutionary biologists studying the genetics of modern animals believed the oldest ancestor of all bilaterians was likely small and simple, ...

Scientists have long known that whole-genome duplication (WGD)—the process by which organisms copy all their genetic material—plays an important role in evolution. But understanding just how ...