Evolution is nature's engine, driving and shaping genetic change and the diversity around us. Charles Darwin famously ...

The long-standing question of how animals came to have an anus may have been solved by studies of which genes are active ...

The researchers also studied fossils of extinct fishes dating back almost 400 million years and saw evidence that some of the oldest jawed fishes had bones with joint cavities for articulated ...

Volcanic ash in Turkey has unlocked the precise ages of key fossil sites—reshaping what we know about mammal evolution and ...

UK biologists traced the evolution of this neurohormone known as bombesin beyond mammals. Search led them to bombesin-like ...

New research suggests seals sense internal oxygen levels to know when to come up for air. Digital version of story that ...

The global average for countries to report genetic information about bird flu, crucial to tracking and preventing a human ...

Anatolia, the western part of modern-day Turkey that sits at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, is a fossil-rich ...

William Murphy, PhD, BS, was selected by SEC provosts for the recognition, from among 16 previous achievement award ...

A new study published in the Journal of Neuroscience has taken a fresh look at data from the brains of humans, chimpanzees, ...

Researchers have dated volcanic layers at six fossil-bearing sites in Turkey, including one known as Taşhan (shown). The ...

Organelles in cells were originally often independent cells, which were incorporated by host cells and lost their independence in the course of evolution. Biologists are now examining the way in which ...