Scientists uncover a 75,000-year-old Arctic ecosystem in Norway, revealing extinct mitochondrial lineages in polar bears, ...

Our knowledge of ancient literature comes to us through the hands of scribes. The works of Aristotle, Galen and Ptolemy ...

About nine million years ago, a hybridization involving the lineage of another farmers market star gave rise to the ...

Scientists have discovered that modern potatoes evolved from a natural hybridization between ancient tomato and potato-like ...

Announcing a new article publication for Zoonoses journal. This study was aimed at analyzing the pathogenic characteristics ...

Ancient viruses left a legacy in your DNA. And it turns out, that legacy may be helping shape who you are.

A new study finds early humans ate tough grasses and tubers long before their teeth adapted, suggesting behavior, not biology, drove human evolution.

Over 500 million years ago, a small marine creature swam through Cambrian waters. Its name: Mollisonia symmetrica. Long ...

A cross-institutional team of researchers from Macquarie University, UNSW and the University of Nebraska has unpicked the ...

Key Laboratory of Agricultural Biosafety and Green Production of Upper Yangtze River (Ministry of Education), College of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Southwest University, Chongqing, China ...

Protein remnants in fossil enamel reveal new ways to study evolution. These molecules stretch our view of molecular preservation far into the past. Proteins naturally break down over time, which makes ...

Scientists have been thinking about how new species evolve since Darwin wrote On The Origin of Species in 1859. The results presented here call into question some of the most common explanations of ho ...