An international team of paleontologists, geologists, geoscientists and Earth scientists has found evidence that a type of ...

The East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) plays a crucial role in shaping the regional climate and ecosystem. It is a key driver ...

That picture (below) comes in the form of a “timetree”—a phylogenetic tree that not only shows how species are related, but also when each split occurred in evolutionary history. The idea is ...

Scientists report adaptive divergence in cryptic color pattern is underlain by two distinct, complex chromosomal rearrangements, where millions of bases of DNA were flipped backwards and moved from ...

While rare, a few birds we studied were rule-breakers. One such rule-breaker is the Eurasian spoonbill, whose highly ...

Dollar Tree is ending its short-lived and ill-fated Family Dollar experiment, offloading the discount brand for $1 billion – just a fraction of its purchase price from a decade ago. Family ...

But for at least one tropical tree species, this doesn’t hurt ... make a significant contribution to our knowledge of plant evolution.” *Editor’s Note (4/2/25): This sentence was edited ...

Dollar Tree is selling its Family Dollar business as the discount chain store tries to turn around its mounting losses under a new leader. Dollar Tree agreed to sell its Family Dollar business ...

Researchers have created a way to see your family tree as a movie rather than a still ... U-M professor of ecology and evolutionary biology. For example, when you send your DNA off for a ...

The trees exchange carbon dioxide and oxygen with the atmosphere through little “mouths” in their leaves and tiny “windows” in their bark. Flowering cherry trees in spring at the New York ...

Could aquatic mammals, such as whales, orcas, and bottlenose dolphins, ever evolve to live on land again? It seems the chances of this are actually vanishingly small, as the adaptations that allow ...

An elderly man attempting to cut down a tree in West Warwick died Friday after the tree fell on him, fire officials said. The man suffered traumatic injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene.