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

Some stinky plants independently evolved an enzyme to take the same molecule behind our bad breath and turn it into the smell of rotting flesh.

Researchers have combined decades of scientific data, tracing how all birds are related. This provides an evolutionary map ...

Tuberculosis is the world's deadliest infectious disease, due in part to its ability to hide out for years in the lungs ...

Wind was the original pollinator, evolving long before animal-mediated pollination. Wind doesn’t require a showy flower nor a nectar reward. What it does require for pollination to succeed is ample ...

A spring walk in search of a rare fern becomes a reflection on memory, nature and the quiet resilience of a threatened ...

New genomic analysis findings could help inform breeding efforts for apples that are tastier and more resilient. A comprehensive new study comparing the genomes of species within the Malus genus, ...

Professor Emily Jane McTavish and colleagues at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have mapped the evolution of every known bird ...

The pair planted trees and shrubs, and when Morton became editor of the state’s newspaper, Nebraska City News, he stressed just how vital plants and trees were. With rapid settlement and ...

Huck Chair in Plant Reproductive Development and Evolution and professor of biology in the Eberly College of Science at Penn State and an author of the paper. "In this study, we were able to do a ...

A new comparison and analysis of the genomes of species in the genus Malus, which includes the domesticated apple and its ...