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

In the league of monogomy, humans sit somewhere between beavers and white-handed gibbons, with about 66% of siblings being full siblings, a Cambridge study has found. What does this say about how we ...

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

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

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

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

The fossil record is crucial for understanding the origins and diversification of amphibians and reptiles. New discoveries ...

New research finds extinction rates have been declining for a century, challenging assumptions of an ongoing mass extinction.

Last month, the Bean Life Science Museum opened their new exhibit, the Evolutionary Tree of Life, to the public.

His book describing ecosystem insights from across the globe, “Why Ecosystems Matter, Preserving the Key to Our Survival,” ...

In three short seasons, Sitake’s “Theory of Evolution” went from concept to construction — and it’s working. BYU is bigger, ...

The discovery and the use of fire changed the nature of the digestion of food, creating additional calories. Serotonin, a ...