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.

The savanna (sometimes mistakenly spelled as "Savannah," which is in the state of Georgia) describes an African region with ...

FOR long we have accepted as well-established and equivalent the five classes of vertebrate animals, but recent zoological ... of the vertebrate phylogenetic tree, most of the branches being ...

Jan. 24, 2025 — Researchers firmly point the finger at the South American Andes Mountains as the place where the Irish potato famine pathogen, Phtytophthora infestans, ...

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

Understanding biological relationships is often critical when studying animal populations. Researchers have now developed a transformative approach that identifies stretches of DNA that two ...

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Recent studies have explored various evolutionary algorithms and metaheuristic techniques to improve decision tree induction. For instance, a comprehensive review highlighted the use of single ...

For the first time, researchers used data from protein shapes and combined it with data from genomic sequences to improve the reliability of evolutionary trees—which they describe as a critical ...

In the process, they revolutionized our understanding of early animal evolution. In this remarkable case of science meeting counterculture, an international study published in Nature takes a closer ...

“Plant genomes tend to double more frequently than those of animals,” he explained ... these duplication events throughout the evolutionary tree. “This new Biotechnological and Biological ...