In fantasy worlds, trees like the Lord of the Rings’ Ents are agile and mobile. In the real world, they’re slow.

“Ancient DNA has produced a revolution in our understanding of recent human origins,” said Daniel Green, field program ...

Images released ahead of a new BBC science series depict Homo floresiensis, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis plus the ...

The venture, privately funded to start, is now run by the University of Arizona. And today, scientists there are quietly ...

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Birds are the most diverse land vertebrate on the planet, and now scientists have constructed a complete evolutionary tree of the 11,000 or so known species. This data came from hundreds of ...

This was a turning point in mammalian evolution, as most species, which were adapted to arboreal (tree-dwelling) life, began to adapt to terrestrial environments.

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A popular model of evolution concludes that it was incredibly unlikely for humanity to evolve on Earth, and that extraterrestrial intelligence is vanishingly rare.

The origins of life on Earth have long fascinated scientists, particularly the nature of the last universal common ancestor ...

Long known as a messenger within cells, RNA is increasingly seen as life’s molecular communication system — even between organisms widely separated by evolution. Cells across the tree of life can swap ...

A tree of life diagram for all flowering plant genera based on DNA analysis. (Image credit: Image by Zuntini et al., 2024, CC BY) All species on Earth, both living and extinct, are related.