Gut bacteria can acquire genes from neighboring microbes, adding to the genetic differences linked to how people live.

In Episode 27, I saw off a long-necked dinosaur.The first ones I met were carnivorous dinosaurs with two crests. One was ...

Mammalian-fish hybrid creatures have a role in Japanese folklore through the ningyo, which are a mermaidlike yokai, a supernatural being thought to have the power to either curse or grant eternal life ...

Discover how the rise of sexual reproduction—with each new generation a roll of the genetic dice—fuels staggering diversity, ...

Approximately 4 billion years have passed since life first emerged on Earth.Over a long period, life has changed its form, adapted to its environment, and continued to evolve.Life that originated in ...

What greater magic can there be than the signature trick of all leaf magicians when they extract a rare gas from the ...

Scientists once dismissed jumping genes as genetic parasites, but they may now hold the key to one of evolution's greatest ...

In fact, the overwhelming majority of animals have tails. Only a select few, like us humans, don’t have an external tail. But why don’t humans have tails? To answer that question we have to go way ...

Bloom is among a team of researchers whose breakthrough research tracing the lineage of fish species in Australia and New Guinea was just published in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the ...

Researchers have built a catalog of mitochondrial proteins found in six eukaryotic organisms — five parasites and one plant — that, along with existing inventories of human and yeast mitochondria, ...

It was a routine day in the laboratory belonging to Cameron Peace on the campus of Washington State University, Pullman, in the high, dry hills close to the Idaho border. Peace is a tree-fruit ...

Nearly eight years after the deadliest antisemitic attack in United States history — during which 11 Jews from three congregations were murdered during Shabbat services — the Tree of Life organization ...