A new study combining genomic analyses and fossil evidence sheds light on the century-old "Palaeoptera Problem," a ...

Birds calling back and forth in the morning make up one of the defining sounds of tropical forests. We're likely to assume ...

The emerald ash borer, an invasive wood-boring beetle that was first spotted in Connecticut in 2012, is responsible for killing millions of the state’s ash trees, but after nearly 15 years, scientists ...

Tracking species relationships isn’t easy. Yet analysing 422 bird species across 1,410 locations offers far deeper insight, ...

Home gardens don't look the same way they used to a few centuries ago. What gardeners plant and the reason why have been ...

Columbia researchers discovered a bacterial antiviral system called DRT10 that shares an evolutionary origin with telomerase, ...

A chipmunk-sized skeleton from the eastern Gobi Desert has forced paleontologists to move an entire group of Cretaceous ...

A new SSR marker study of 621 Prosopis cineraria trees across 25 populations in Rajasthan and Gujarat reveals strong genetic ...

A brilliant yellow coral discovered off Costa Rica proved so unusual that scientists had to create an entirely new family to classify it. The meter-tall colonies rise from seafloors covered in brittle ...

A group of Chinese scientists has uncovered the mystery behind how an ancient gene regulates the development of brain folds, shedding new light on the evolution of the human brain. The findings were ...

You walk out one morning, glance at your birch or maple, and notice it: a series of small, perfectly spaced holes running in ...

Predatory wasps are hijacking shelters built by tropical trees for their ant defenders, potentially disrupting an ancient ...