A research team has created a comprehensive evolutionary tree of all bird species, integrating data from hundreds of studies ...

The mystery of life’s beginnings has long captivated scientists. Central to that search is LUCA—the last universal common ...

Tyrannosaurus rex evolved in North America, but its direct ancestor came from Asia, crossing a land bridge connecting the continents more than 70 million years ago, according to a new study.

Comb jellies "could repurpose [their] genetic toolkit in different ways like a Swiss knife," said the researchers.

The ancestor of the virus that causes COVID-19 left its point of origin in Western China or Northern Laos just several years ...

Life depends on genes being switched on and off at exactly the right time. Even the simplest living organisms do this, but ...

A complete Mixodectes pungens skeleton reveals it was a leaf-eating, tree-dwelling mammal closely related to primates and ...

Approach: Using bioinformatics tools, we reconstructed clonal evolution trees from whole-genome sequencing (WGS) analysis of tumors and inferred migration patterns to determine metastatic seeding.

TOLEDO, Ohio — One person was killed and another was injured in west Toledo Thursday night after a tree fell onto a car. According to a Toledo police report, a vehicle was traveling northbound ...

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 ...

However, the adaptive value, mechanistic diversity, and evolution of epigenome-targeted DNA repair systems across the tree of life remain unresolved. Here, we investigated the evolution of histone ...

Fire and Emergency is responding to concerns about a roof lifting off a home on Beach Road in Campbells Bay as Cyclone Tam hits the North Island. Power cuts, falling trees and near misses plagued ...