For ten years running, computer scientist Alexandros Stamatakis from the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) ...

In the Amazon forest, human disturbances are now changing which trees grow, how they work, and how deep their evolutionary ...

This article introduces the field of bioinformatics and its importance as a cornerstone of biological research, as well as ...

Darwin knew he'd solved the paradox of how traits change across lineages, despite the fact that changes acquired over a ...

Scientists discover a new species of bright orange venomous scorpionfish called Phenacoscorpius trispinis in Sagami Bay, ...

The area known as the Santana Group in the Araripe Basin in northeastern Brazil has long been an important fossil site, ...

But corals have been around for about 460 million years, and they have survived multiple mass extinction events, including ...

Scientists have discovered three new species of African tree toads that break one of biology’s best-known rules. Instead of ...

An international team of researchers has discovered three new, bizarre, and wart-covered species of tree toads from Tanzania ...

“Our work highlights how evolutionary adaptations to diet and disease may have influenced primate biology, including humans,” ...

The extinction of Neanderthals, our closest extinct human relatives, has long been a subject of intrigue and speculation. A ...