The venture, privately funded to start, is now run by the University of Arizona. And today, scientists there are quietly ...

Polyploidy, or whole-genome duplication (WGD), is a major mechanism of genome evolution across the tree of life and is ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life we find there are many groups of mammals that have evolved testicles of all different sizes. In almost all these separate cases, ...

The being in question is a microbe called Sukunaarchaeum mirabile. Preliminary research says it stretches the definition of ...

This newly found organism doesn’t act like a virus or a cell, and that could change everything we know about biology.

The Yemeni island of Socotra was largely unspoiled, its few guests arriving to trade for aromatic frankincense. Now it is ...

A novel suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally hot for 5 million years. Researchers say they have figured out why using a ...

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, as well as Rocky Vista University (U.S.), show that ...

The helix-shaped pavilion resembles an ancient ammonite, as a motif of life. Popular cartoon character Astro Boy, who acts as a navigator for visitors, sits atop the tip of the ammonite, pointing ...

When scientists brushed aside the dusty soil in 2022 to reveal a saber-toothed skull, they had no idea it would upend ...