Biologists studying convergent evolution — the process where unrelated species develop similar traits — suggest that ...

A remarkable 151-million-year-old fly fossil found in China is changing our view of insect evolution. This ancient insect, ...

An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The ...

1. Comparative biochemistry and evolution of milk oligosaccharides of monotremes, marsupials, and eutherians / Tadasu Urashima, Michael Messer and Olav T. Oftedal -- 2. Genomics-based insights into ...

A University of Michigan researcher has discovered an early innovation in the way fish eat. A scientist from the University of Michigan has helped uncover the earliest evidence of a tongue-like biting ...

We are lizard biologists, and to do our work we need to catch lizards—never an easy task with such fast, agile creatures.

A groundbreaking study has traced the 66-million-year evolutionary history of primates and overturned conventional thought that our ancestors originally inhabited warm tropical forests. Using advanced ...

Researchers at Scripps have created T7-ORACLE, a powerful new tool that speeds up evolution, allowing scientists to design and improve proteins thousands of times faster than nature. Using engineered ...