Imagine plunging into the depths of the ocean and coming face to face with a creature that glides through the water with ...

Mutations fuel evolution while also causing diseases like cancer. Epigenome-targeted DNA repair can help organisms protect important genomic regions from mutation. However, the adaptive value, ...

The evolution of teeth began in the oceans around half a billion years ago. First, filter-feeding fish evolved jaws – not to ...

Ultimately, the widespread occurrence of SSSB in mammals, especially primates, strongly suggests that such behaviors are ...

Colossal Bioscience says it has “de-extincted” the dire wolf, but other scientists disagree and say more important ...

The dire wolf is a canine species that has been extinct for around 10,000 years, having lived up to 250,000 years ago. Living ...

nature’s shared adaptations Convergent evolution is a process where unrelated species independently develop similar traits to ...

Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence ...

This was a turning point in mammalian evolution, as most species, which were adapted to arboreal (tree-dwelling) life, began to adapt to terrestrial environments. The investigators, headed by ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...