The history of life on Earth is a tale of slow burns and sudden explosions, shaped by environmental upheavals and ...

The history of life on our planet is a long and winding path. Much of what we know about how life has evolved comes from fossils. The physical remains of organisms and the evidence of behaviors, such ...

Incredibly, the story of how you are related to all of those species––and millions upon millions more that have gone extinct over the 3.5-billion-year history of life on Earth––can be ...

Route 66 runs through the heart of the Ozarks. And every now and then, a piece of its history is found and saved, giving the Mother Road another gem for its visitors.

The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, ...

The initial radiation of vascular land plants, evidenced by increases in both diversity and morphological disparity during ...

Researchers have innovatively merged protein structural data with genetic sequences to construct evolutionary trees, ...

How is it that whole groups of animals have simultaneously died out? Paleontologists are returning to an earlier answer: natural catastrophe. The catastrophes they visualize, however, are not ...

The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, according to a new study. It is the first time researchers use data from ...