A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now ...

The team analyzed DNA from about 100 trees per species, searching for genetic clues about the history and future of each ...

Scientists analyze 4.3 billion dipeptides across species to trace genetic code evolution and early protein development.

For the more than 242 million years that lizards and snakes appear in the fossil record, they show up mostly as pieces of ...

A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now ...

These plants again went into oblivion on the island, due to another eruption. Nishinoshima is an island in the Pacific, located around 620 miles south of the Japanese capital Tokyo, according to ...

The finding indicates that as early as 1 million years ago, human ancestors had already differentiated into multiple independently evolving groups. The timing and complexity of this differentiation ...

Knowing a tree’s species is key to understanding their proper growing conditions, how to prune them and what insect and ...

Listening to bird songs and calls can help identify species and connect with the sounds of nature. An ornithologist provides ...

A research team led by Academician Zhu Jiaojun from the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

Digital reconstruction of a partially crushed skull suggests new insight into Homo sapiens’ evolutionary relationship to Denisovans and Neandertals.

The shared ancestor of our species, the Neanderthals and the Denisovans may be far older than we thought – which could ...