Fungi represent one of the most ancient and diverse branches of the eukaryotic tree of life, with origins tracing back over a billion years. Through the integration of molecular phylogenetics, fossil ...

An international team of scientists has made a discovery that could reshape our understanding of how global biodiversity evolved. By reconstructing the evolution of species over the past 45 million ...

Insects, the most diverse group of animals on Earth, trace their origins to the late Silurian or early Devonian, around 400 million years ago. Early lineages acquired powered flight and, later, ...

A study published in PeerJ has reshaped our understanding of the evolutionary history of sea stars, particularly the family Asteriidae. The study, titled "Phylogenetic and taxonomic revisions of ...

Supraordinal relationships of primates and their time of origin -- A molecular classification for the living orders of placental mammals and the phylogenetic placement of primates / MS Springer, WJ ...

Evolutionary biologists have long believed that the human-biting mosquito, Culex pipiens form molestus,evolved from the bird-biting form, Culex pipiens form pipiens, in subways and cellars in northern ...

Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Present-Day Tropical Rain Forests -- Ch. 3. Geological Time Framework, Palaeoecological and Palaeoclimate Definitions -- Ch. 4. Geological Evidence for Rain Forests -- Ch ...

Researchers in Alberta uncovered a fossil fish that rewrites the evolutionary history of otophysans, which today dominate freshwater ecosystems. The new species, Acronichthys maccognoi, shows early ...

Imagine peering through a microscope and watching a hidden world come alive: tiny plankton drifting through water collected from a local pond, or the earliest stages of fertilization and embryonic ...

Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about the evolutionary history of kissing, how moss spores fare in space, and new clues about the collision that created the moon. It is ...