The Cambrian Explosion is a landmark moment in the history of life on Earth when many of the major groups of animals first ...

One study is of enamel proteins from extinct mammal fossils from the Turkana Basin in Kenya, and the other study is of enamel proteins from extinct mammals in the Haughton impact crater site located ...

Proteins degrade over time, making their history hard to study. But new research has uncovered ancient proteins in the enamel ...

A new study argues that religion, politics and war affect how animals and plants in cities evolve, and the confluence of ...

Sharks are, by any definition, incredibly badass. They’re the only animals around that can claim to have chowed down on ...

Scientists reconstructed 500 million years of evolutionary history to reveal which came first: colorful signals or the color ...

Phylogenetic tree reconstruction of sampled specimens indicated that Dugesia japonica forms a sister clade to the studied population, albeit with distant genetic relatedness, suggesting the latter may ...

By combining data on all known bird species, this tree is the most impressive snapshot yet of one of Earth’s most awe-inspiring classes of animal.

We reconstructed the evolutionary history of the freshwater fish family Nemacheilidae across Eurasia and spanning most of the Cenozoic era on the base of 471 specimens representing 279 species and 37 ...

Phylogenetic trees based on the gB, gC and gD nucleotides showed they were in the same clade with the classical strain, further confirming the evolutionary results of HN2201 that the isolate was ...

The ongoing research into lagerpetid anatomy and phylogeny is fundamental for enhancing our understanding of early pterosaur evolution. The advancements in this field underscore the significance of ...