People typically think about evolution as a linear process where, within a species, the classic adage of "survival of the ...

After having been relegated to the backrooms of dusty museums, surrounded by a cadre of venerable scientists and even older fossils, evolutionary systematics is now enjoying a renaissance that began ...

The ancient skeleton known as “Little Foot” has long been a celebrity in paleoanthropology, but a new wave of research is pushing it into even more provocative territory. Instead of fitting neatly ...

One of the most complete hominin fossils ever discovered could completely change our understanding of human evolution, new ...

Giant Amazon tree Drypetes oliveri, towering 115 feet, was discovered after 40 years, with only a few surviving in Peru.

About 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out on a bold quest: to identify and name every living organism on ...

Scientists organize millions of proteins by shape, as predicted by AI, revealing 700,000 new families and some shapes unique ...

Bengaluru: Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) has identified over 1,000 dangerous, dried, or structurally weak trees across the city in just 15 days, signalling an alarming deterioration of Bengaluru's ...

A WORLD-FAMOUS fossil nicknamed “Little Foot” may actually belong to a new humanlike species. The fossil was previously ...

This Genome Watch discusses the great biosynthetic capacity that has been identified in marine environmental and host-associated microbiomes, along with approaches to facilitate research into these ...

All year long, these moments captivated the public, demonstrated dangerous trends, and pushed research and innovation forward ...