Genomes are key to unlocking life's evolutionary history. The presence and absence of certain genetic sequences and mutations can give us clues to the ...

Four billion years ago, Earth was violent, hot, and unstable. Yet new research suggests that by then, life had already ...

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), in collaboration with the Southern Marine Science and Engineering ...

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), in collaboration with the Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory ...

The timeline of terrestrial evolution holds surprises. While scientists thought complex life required oxygen, a recent ...

A new dome-headed dinosaur speices found in Montana, Brontotholus harmoni, reveals unexpected clues about their evolution.

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 ...

Researchers have reclassified a long-misidentified fossil from New Mexico as Ahshiselsaurus wimani, a newly recognized giant duck-billed dinosaur that offers fresh insights into hadrosaur evolution ...

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 ...

A research team led by Prof. Zhu Min—a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and affiliated with the CAS Institute ...

Researchers announced over 70 new species in a single year, including bizarre insects, ancient dinosaurs, rare mammals, and ...

New breakthroughs in microbial analysis could enhance disease prediction, environmental protection and our understanding of the planet’s smallest life forms.