Birds-of-paradise have captivated the planet with their elaborate plumage and idiosyncratic mating dances. Some species ...

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

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In a groundbreaking analysis that could shift the landscape of biological understanding, researchers from the University of ...

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 ...

Polymer composites have been broadly used in electrical and electronic applications, in which fillers are incorporated into polymers to achieve better properties. As electrical trees are a typical ...

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

Scientists reconstructed 500 million years of evolutionary history to reveal which came first: colorful signals or the color ...

Two new studies add to the evidence that human activity, from fishing to urban development, is driving the evolution of wild ...

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, ...

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