Depression may serve evolved functions, such as signaling defeat or promoting problem-solving. It may be a result of ...

FORKS, Wash. — In Kalaloch, on the Washington coast, people from all over the world come to stand in wonder and take pictures ...

Mitochondria are the body's "energy factories," and their proper function is essential for life. Inside mitochondria, a set ...

Birds are the most diverse land vertebrate on the planet, and now scientists have constructed a complete evolutionary tree of the 11,000 or so known species. This data came from hundreds of ...

Most of us can imagine a tree of life; some can even sketch one out. Branches coming off branches coming off branches, each describing a turn in evolutionary history. Over here are the molluscs.

A tree of life diagram for all flowering plant genera based on DNA analysis. (Image credit: Image by Zuntini et al., 2024, CC BY) All species on Earth, both living and extinct, are related.

It is why life takes "such endless forms most beautiful and wonderful," as British biologist Charles Darwin wrote in his famous 1859 book " On the Origin of Species." You can thank evolution for ...

A new study unveils the most comprehensive understanding of the evolutionary history of flowering plants to date. The research analyzed 1.8 billion letters of genetic code from more than 9,500 ...

Minecraft has a ton of mobs, blocks, and plants, and the 1.21 update will add some more mobs. While all the mobs are different, one can clearly see that they can be grouped into a single family.

“In the long term, we’re putting a big dent in the evolution of life on the planet,” Gerardo Ceballos, UNAM and study co-author, said in a press statement. “But also, in this century, what ...