A study on Indo-European languages, using direct linguistic data, reconciles the two dominant hypotheses of where and how ...

In the dim waters off the Japanese coast, scientists have stumbled upon something that shouldn’t exist. Or at least not by the rules we thought biology followed. It’s a single-celled organism with ...

Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers.

The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.

Up-to-date computational pipeline characterizes G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) repertoires in the closest relatives of metazoans, providing a framework to investigate the evolutionary origins and ...

David Spade slammed a mall's tree-lighting ceremony for omitting the word "Christmas." In the Sunday episode of Spade and Dana Carvey's "Fly on the Wall" podcast, the 61-year-old "Grown Ups" actor ...

A rare fossil plant reveals how early plants moved water and food, helping to explain the secrets of tree growth.

Understanding phylogenetic relationships among species is key to studying evolutionary transitions, but the growing scale of sequence data poses challenges for current methods. This study presents ...

Phylogenetics is the attempt to reconstruct the evolutionary relationships between species. Historically, this was done using quantitative morphological data, but modern methods rely more heavily on ...

Many of the best artificial Christmas trees are on sale for Cyber Week, including our best overall pick, the National Tree Company Douglas Fir. For more deals, check out our roundup of the best Cyber ...

Association of paleopalynological data from the Nanxiong Basin, south China, and late Paleocene niche expansion in endemic Asian fossil mammals.

Balanophora plants represent an extreme example of this shift. They do not produce their own food through photosynthesis but ...