A dolphin breaking the surface for air can seem like a reminder of its mammalian past. But evolution is not nostalgia. The ...

Humanity is rapidly altering a vast ecosystem that sustains life on land and sea. But restoration is nearly impossible without understanding it better. Edith Widder is CEO and senior scientist at the ...

The study, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, shows that early interactions between fungi and algae may have played a key role in the spread of life across the continents "As a group, fungi are ...

New research is shaking up our understanding of evolution by revealing that some species may not evolve gradually at all. Instead, scientists discovered that certain marine worms experienced an ...

Imagine you could live and breathe as comfortably underwater as you could on the land. Fascinating, isn’t it? While this may not be naturally possible for humans, some animals are built to thrive in ...

Animals from completely different branches of the tree of life, such as insects, worms and vertebrates, independently evolved similar genetic solutions to survive on land, according to a new study ...

The history of the first plant on Earth is not as simple as the identification of a particular species of plants, but it is a ...