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 ...

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 ...

Chimpanzees are often cast as a mirror to our darkest tendencies, embodying violence, territoriality and power struggles. In ...

We introduce a novel methodology, namely binary tree population structure-based differential evolution (BTDE), to mitigate these issues. BTDE introduces a binary tree population structure comprising ...

The Category 4 storm hit in September, ripping through the Southeast and taking hundreds of trees down at Augusta National. At the time, Augusta National chair Fred Ridley said in a press release ...