Forests flanking Brazil's rivers act as "highways" that have allowed tree species to move between the Amazon and Atlantic ...

Researchers at Hokkaido University have developed a new computational tool to help evolutionary biologists analyze complex genetic data to reconstruct the evolutionary history of species and the ...

Electrical engineers have developed a better way to perform the comparative analysis of entire genomes. This approach can be used to study relationships between different species across geological ...

Giant clams, some of the largest mollusks on Earth, have long fascinated scientists. These impressive creatures can grow up ...

Humans' increasingly large footprint across the planet is forcing plants & animals to adapt and is affecting some species' evolutionary path.

A new study led by UC Santa Cruz ecology and evolutionary biologist Malin Pinsky finds that temperature changes due to ...

In honor of the Year of the Snake, let’s appreciate the strange anatomy and evolution of these slithery reptiles ...

Michigan State University researchers identified two new truffle species, Tuber canirevelatum and Tuber cumberlandense, with ...

As forests continue to be cleared and forested landscapes degraded by human activity, their loss can significantly affect the ...

In a new study involving whole-genome data, researchers present "CASTER," a tool that uses arrangements in DNA sequences known as site patterns to ...

Around the time that bat ancestors evolved powered flight, their genomes picked up immune adaptations that can quell viral ...