While the majority of animals (humans included) roam the Earth, some of nature’s most fascinating creatures spend their lives ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...

No matter where you live, trees are a facet of everyday life. Beneath their bark, however, the invisible ecosystems supporting trees in urban areas are beginning to unravel, spelling bad news for ...

In a joint collaboration with researchers from colleges around the globe, a campus professor published a study Monday that uncovered new microbes, expanding the commonly known tree of life. Jillian ...

All species on Earth, both living and extinct, are related. We know this because of a biological tool called the tree of life. This "tree" takes the form of a diagram that maps the relationships ...

From humans and dinosaurs to starfish and seagrass, every animal, plant, and fungus on Earth appears to trace its origins back to a single strange clan of microbes known as the Asgard archaea. In a ...

Trees have always been a part of human civilization, and their uses range from providing protection, food, shade, and a source of life in the form of oxygen to many other things. Among the innumerable ...