But thanks in part to trees planted in areas where the two fungi don’t grow well, the American chestnut isn’t extinct. And efforts to revive it in its native range have continued, despite the long ...
Living organisms share an ancestor called the last universal common ancestor, or LUCA. LUCA is estimated to have lived ...
Imagine zooming out on a giant family tree that includes every bird you have ever seen. Ostriches sprint across open plains, ...
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An asteroid ended the age of the dinosaurs. But how did their reign begin? Mysterious early reptiles may hold the answer
A small but fierce jawbone sits in Argentina’s natural science museum in Buenos Aires. Six inches long and studded with ...
All species alive today, from chimpanzees to bacteria, are cousins that each have equally long lineages, rather than ...
The order Primates consists of not only our closest relatives on earth, the seven great apes, but also over 450 species of monkeys, lemurs, lorises, and galagos. Primates are fantastically diverse, ...
ABSTRACT: The absence of the atp8 gene in the mitochondrial genomes of Platyhelminthes and certain other mollusks has garnered significant attention in recent years. Growing evidence suggests that ...
Engineers are making it easier for researchers from a broad range of backgrounds to understand how different species are evolutionarily related, and support the transformative biological and medical ...
The story of primates is a tale of incredible variety and ancient roots, told through the lens of science, DNA, and time itself. These creatures, ranging from massive gorillas to tiny mouse lemurs, ...
State Key Laboratory of Efficient Production of Forest Resources, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China Introduction: Accurate phylogenetic reconstruction is crucial for understanding ...
A new computational tool improves the analysis of genetic data, making it easier and faster to study the evolutionary relationships between species. A new computational tool improves the analysis of ...
New research headed by scientists at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) has demonstrated how the three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary ...
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