Similarly, most living things produce records of their own existence in layered body tissues – often in the form of daily or ...

An international research team has described a newly discovered algae species Streptofilum arcticum and its cell functions ...

Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion of the genomic era shows that gene loss and simplification is a much more ...

Research published in Current Biology indicates that volcanic eruptions and climate adaptations played key roles in their evolution. Future fossil discoveries in underexplored regions like the ...

However, the researchers also found that countries where poultry are vaccinated against H5 bird flu—specifically China—saw a faster rate of viral evolution compared to those where poultry is ...

However, being taller and more muscular comes with greater evolutionary costs, as a male must eat a lot and also be physically healthy both during childhood and as an adult to achieve and maintain ...

To understand what occurred along the vertebrate evolutionary tree between fish and mammals, the researchers looked at the activity of those same enhancers in frogs and lizards. In frog tadpoles ...

The secondary structure proportions of the same gene may vary between different species, possibly due to evolutionary divergence. Furthermore, variations in secondary structure proportions were ...

For more than 150 years, scientists have debated whether Prototaxites—which stood roughly 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide—were an early lichen or fungus, like a “giant mushroom” ...

"Our study with chimpanzees clearly shows that they share some similarities in this phenomenon, suggesting the deep evolutionary origin of contagious urination." The team decided to study the ...