Every organism alive on Earth, from oak trees to octopuses to the bacteria in our gut, belongs to a single extended family. Genetic evidence points back to one ancestral cell, a last common forebear ...

Long before today’s tree-dwelling sloths, a 4-ton giant roamed South America — and it may have stood and fought like a bear.

People change. Cities change. Culture changes. If a brand stays frozen in its first chapter, it has to keep fighting to ...

A new study says genetic testing can speed the return of the American chestnut tree that once dominated Eastern U.S. forests ...

Chinese scientists, in collaboration with international research institutions, have launched a global project to explore the evolutionary history of plants and unlock genetic resources critical for ...

Aerobic respiration began hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought, a new study suggests.

Players will get to see the class's beginnings in Diablo 2 today and its more destructive evolution in Diablo 4 this April.

Scientists found a 307 million-year-old fossil, Tyrannoroter heberti, revealing one of the earliest known land vertebrates ...

Imagine zooming out on a giant family tree that includes every bird you have ever seen. Ostriches sprint across open plains, ...

We know the main reason that the age of the dinosaurs came to an end: an asteroid impact on the Yucatán Peninsula some 66 million years ago. But how the dinosaurs’ reign began is far less clear—and ...

"By following universal paralogs," says Kaçar, "we can connect the earliest steps of life on Earth to the tools of modern ...

Scientists call this speck LUCA — the Last Universal Common Ancestor. Since the concept of LUCA first emerged, it has ...