New research published in Nature Ecology & Evolution sheds light on the timelines and pathways of evolution of fungi, finding ...

Directed evolution is a laboratory technique that mimics natural selection and allows scientists to evolve genes and the ...

Little is known about the early history of lizards, snakes and their kin. New fossil discoveries reveal a complex ...

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected witness to Earth’s distant past: tiny iron oxide stones called ooids. These mineral snowballs lock away traces of ancient carbon, revealing that oceans between ...

A recent study dramatically pushes back the date for the emergence of our species, though some researchers call for further ...

The Philippines, long recognized as one of the world’s most important biodiversity hotspots, could lose nearly a quarter of ...