Symbiotic bacteria living inside insect cells have lost much of their DNA over hundreds of millions of years, much like the ancient microbes that evolved into mitochondria ...

A new study from Caltech explores the remarkable way a SoCal beetle infiltrates the colonies of the ant that runs the show in ...

Scientists have unearthed in Canada's province of Nova Scotia the skull of a creature dating to about 307 million years ago ...

This football-sized creature could grind its teeth like a hard-core plant-eater, back before that was really a thing — and it ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, the first animals to crawl onto land were strict meat-eaters, even as plants had already taken over the landscape. Now scientists have uncovered a ...

Bed bugs did not evolve to target humans by accident, but through a long process of adaptation tied closely to human behavior. As people moved into permanent shelters, these insects shifted hosts and ...

We are delighted to introduce the special issue of Journal of Systematics and Evolution on the Himalayas. This issue features 11 cutting-edge studies that employ genomic approaches to explore this ...

SANParks described the findings as further confirmation that the park remains a critical reservoir of largely unexplored biodiversity.

Life on Earth started in the oceans. Sometime around 475 million years ago, plants began making their way from the water onto ...