Using termite and cockroach genomes, researchers built phylogenetic trees from transposons, paving a new way to differentiate difficult evolutionary lineages.

Scientists have traced kissing back to early primates, suggesting it began long before humans evolved. Their analysis points ...

Is an organism a sum of its parts, or should they be considered as a whole? New research on ferns shows how the way scientists understand evolution affects how they study life.

Scientists trace the origins of human kissing back over 20 million years to ancient apes who first showed gentle ...

What do whales, hippos, and a two‑ton, bone‑crunching beast from 30 million years ago have in common? More than most would ...

Let's watch how a maple seed germinating and growing into a young tree over this 138-day time-lapse. For cold-stratification, maple seeds were wrapped in a moist paper-towel and chilled in the ...

A new study reveals kissing began in the common ancestor of humans and great apes 21 million years ago, and even Neanderthals ...

Mississippi State biologist Matthew W. Brown, the university’s Donald L. Hall Professor of Biology, is part of an ...

Researchers have created an artificial intelligence model that can identify which mutations in human proteins are most likely ...

This tiny plant performs real arithmetic in the dark. Here’s how it uses its calculations not only to survive, but to time ...

Long before dinosaurs took over the Earth, fierce reptile predators like Tainrakuasuchus bellator dominated the landscape.