Genetic sharing among evolutionary neighbors all happens through hybrids: the offspring produced when individuals from two ...

Wood warblers, also called New World warblers, are some of the most colorful birds in North America, with more than a hundred ...

Ravi Shankar Prasad, former Special Secretary of the Ministry of Environment, noted that geopolitical realities dampened ...

Scientists have discovered a 151-million-year-old fossil fly in Australia that challenges ideas about insect evolution. Named ...

Since the time of the dinosaurs, cycad plants may have attracted insects using infrared light. It may be the world's oldest ...

People typically think about evolution as a linear process where, within a species, the classic adage of "survival of the fittest" is constantly at ...

Cutting off reproduction — from birth control to castration — consistently adds years to life across species, even humans.

The words “pollination” and “flower” may seem inseparable, but plants began courting insects millions of years before they ...

Aquatic plants are specialized evolutionary groups adapted to life in water. They play critical roles as food and medicinal supplies (e.g., lotus root ...

The controlled use of fire was a landmark event for the human evolutionary lineage, not only for cooking and providing ...

A 430-million-year-old fossil reveals that the first leeches were ocean predators, not bloodsuckers. The discovery radically shifts the timeline of leech evolution by more than 200 million years.

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.