For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – ...

A new study published in Ecology Letters has uncovered the mechanisms underlying plant community assembly and biodiversity ...

The origin of life on Earth becomes even more fascinating and complex as we peer into the mysterious world of viruses. Said to have existed since living cells first appeared, these microscopic ...

A new species of shrew, Soriculus dexingensis, is discovered in Tibet, raising the number of known shrew species there to six ...

Scientists refine the timeline of sponge origins, showing soft-bodied ancestors likely evolved later than some chemical ...

The discovery of a giant virus called Ushikuvirus offers inklings into the origin and evolution of our complex cells and new ...

The discovery, published in the Journal of Virology in November 2025, adds weight to the viral eukaryogenesis hypothesis.

Ushikuvirus is a newly identified giant virus that infects amoebas, adding to a growing group of oversized viruses that scientists believe may have played an important role in the emergence of complex ...

Ushikuvirus, an amoeba-infecting giant virus, joins the family of giant viruses that may have driven the evolution of complex ...

The origin of life on Earth becomes even more fascinating and complex as we peer into the mysterious world of viruses.

A call for both distinguished global experts and rising early - career stars to join a systematic, multi - dimensional platform for biodiversity research.

Engineers at UC San Diego have developed a new data structure and compression technique that enables the field of pangenomics ...