Using termite and cockroach genomes, researchers built phylogenetic trees from transposons, paving a new way to differentiate difficult evolutionary lineages.

Flight is a rare skill in the animal world. Among vertebrates, it evolved only three times: in bats, birds, and the ...

The genetic code is the recipe for life, and provides the instructions for how to make proteins, generally using just 20 ...

"The breakthrough was the discovery of an ancient pterosaur relative, a small lagerpetid archosaur named Ixalerpeton from 233 ...

Foot bones and other fossils have been attributed to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a recently discovered species that may shake up the human family tree.

Millipedes defend themselves with hydrogen cyanide, like some plants & insects, but new research shows they evolved this ...