My colleague and I have published a new study of cactus flowers which may help explain the conundrum. For more than a century ...

The history of Earth is written on the great tablets of tectonic plates. The motions of plates shaped land masses, formed ...

A study has traced thousands of conserved regulatory elements back 300 million years, revealing deep principles of plant genome evolution—a discovery that could pave the way for more precise ...

Researchers uncovered millions of ancient plant DNA switches—some older than flowering plants themselves—revealing a hidden evolutionary blueprint stretching back 400 million years. Most people have ...

How a collection of London pigeons and Galápagos mockingbirds provided the receipts for Darwin’s biggest ideas.

The 2010 discovery that early humans and Neanderthals once encountered one another and had babies was a scientific bombshell that electrified the field of human origins. Now, geneticists at the ...

A field team from the Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Center in Egypt identified a previously unknown crocodile species, Wadisuchus kassabi, that lived in what is now Egypt about 80 ...

Deep under the Jurassic rock beds of New South Wales, scientists discovered fossilized insects that push back the history of one of the world’s most hardy families of flies. These fragile traces, ...

Even Charles Darwin was puzzled by the evolution of the vertebrate eye. New research suggests that it traces back to a cyclopean invertebrate with a single eye atop the head. By Carl Zimmer Look at ...

"Insanity is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule." - Friedrich Nietzsche Something feels profoundly wrong with our world, doesn't it? That constant knot ...