A new study theorizes that evolution ticks at different speeds, especially when a big group of organisms first appears.

During these waves of mass extinction, most vertebrate survivors were confined to refugia, or isolated biodiversity hotspots ...

The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright movement. It helps explain how human ancestors left life on all fours ...

The research analysed not just gene composition but also the physical order of genes on chromosomes, tracking their movements ...

Some 445 million years ago, life on Earth was forever changed. During the geological blink of an eye, glaciers formed over ...

Hyderabad: A new genomic study has shed fresh light on how mites and ticks evolved, and how parasitic species emerged over ...

A study based on Finnish twins shows that reproductive history is associated, at the population level, with women's lifespan ...

NASA announced on Friday evening (Jan. 9) that it plans to roll the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft ...

It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about ...

A study based on Finnish twins shows that reproductive history is associated, at the population level, with women's lifespan ...

Flash forward 10 years and Sivakumar had become an integrative biology major paid to conduct groundbreaking research into how ...