Genomic analysis reveals squid and cuttlefish evolved in deep oceans, survived mass extinction in refuges, and later rapidly diversified, following a “long fuse” evolutionary pattern.

Scientists have identified the genetic changes that helped tree-dwelling snakes to evolve longer tails across multiple ...

Humans carry a surprising relic from deep evolutionary history, one that traces back to a tiny, one-eyed ancestor that lived nearly 600 million years ago. New findings on eye evolution highlight how ...

Reverse-engineering the billion-year-old enzyme nitrogenase clued researchers into how life originally formed on Earth — and ...

An international team of scientists from Queen Mary University of London, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Biology Centre ...

Laminated timber is more environmentally friendly than steel, and perfectly safe for constructing tall buildings.

The critical note in some of the world’s most well-known perfumes is myrrh, a tree resin from the Horn of Africa that is ...

Scientists are working to close the gap with an emerging discipline called conservation genomics: sequencing an organism’s ...

Spring was starting to pop out -- my favorite time of the year, and I was a bit disappointed in myself for not getting off ...

What a spectacle this is.

Even the most familiar plants probably have more to reveal than we’ve invested the time to notice. The two botanists behind ...