An international research team has described a newly discovered algae species Streptofilum arcticum and its cell functions ...

Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...

New research reports, for the first time, the widespread occurrence of biofluorescence in birds-of-paradise. The study, based on specimens collected since the 1800s, finds biofluorescence in 37 of the ...

Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion of the genomic era shows that gene loss and simplification is a much more ...

Researchers discovered how genetic switches shaped human brain evolution by fine-tuning shared gene expression.

German pig skulls changed significantly due to selective breeding. Scientists found shorter snouts and flatter foreheads in ...

On Darwin Day, 12 February 2025, the Darwin Online project at the National University of Singapore (NUS) launches the largest ...

A 20-year-old archive of water samples from Lake Mendota in Madison contributed to a “game-changing” study at The University ...

A fossilised bird skull found in Antarctica reveals evolutionary links between Vegavis iaai and modern waterfowl species.

For the first time ever, an international study led by the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE), a joint centre of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) (the Spanish National ...

A new study explores how complex chemical mixtures change under shifting environmental conditions, shedding light on the ...

Religious dogma clashed with early science, but fossils and discoveries reshaped humanity’s understanding of Earth’s history.