A simple change in species composition can impact the course of evolution: A research team from the University of Bern and ...
Long before industry, our ancestors faced toxic metals, including lead. This exposure may have shaped the evolution of human ...
The same regulatory landscape which influences the development of fingers is present in fish, despite their distinct lack of digits. When researchers used CRISPR (a common gene editing tool) to fiddle ...
A tiny fish fossil found far inland in Canada reveals new insight into the evolution of catfish, carp, and 2/3 of all ...
By connecting fossil evidence with modern genetics and computer simulations, Liu’s team has revealed how a tiny set of ear ...
In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...
Through advanced isotopic analyses, Rodnyel Arosemena seeks to understand how fish in the Caribbean and the Pacific that had a common ancestor take advantage of the resources of their different ...
Researchers in Alberta uncovered a fossil fish that rewrites the evolutionary history of otophysans, which today dominate ...
An incredible genetic analysis reveals that a lungfish has a larger genome than a human. We explore what this means.