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

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

Five tree fossils that resemble each other were found in New Brunswick, Canada, and showed certain similarities to the ...

Generous Brands, a Butterfly portfolio company and a leader in premium refrigerated beverages offering the Bolthouse Farms, ...

The avocado survived a series of ecological and cultural close calls that could have easily relegated it to extinction ...

The coelacanth is known as a "living fossil" because its anatomy has changed little in the last 65 million years. Despite ...

Scientists found a 247-million-year-old reptile, Mirasaura grauvogeli, with a feather-like crest that lived in trees.

A 500-million-year-old fossil challenges everything we know about spider evolution.

In 1929, archaeologists discovered the 140,000-year-old skeleton of a young girl in Skhūl Cave. The researchers believed her ...

An international team has remapped the evolutionary relationships of butterflies found across South and Central America to help monitor and support biodiversity.

Experts had long believed feathers came from dinosaurs and birds. But Mirasaura, which predates dinosaurs, shows that complex ...

To plant a tree is to affirm one’s faith in the future, while at the same time reckoning with the sadness inherent in the ...