There is Astyra mclaughlinae, which set a new record as the deepest and most tropical member of its genus ever found. Or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A tree that seems to defy gravity on a seaside bluff in Washington’s rugged Olympic National Park took a heavy hit in storms that ...

The tree of life is a massive framework that maps every living organism, showing how species evolved and branched over ...

Scientists have discovered which animal was the first to branch off from our collective common ancestor. For years, debate had raged over whether the first to diverge was the sea sponge or the comb ...

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 ...

In the temperate rainforests of Chile's Alerce Costero National Park, deep in the ground, is an ancient conifer called ‘Gran ...

The tree’s telomeres – the protective “caps” on the ends of chromosomes that stop their charge from fraying or breaking down, ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

In many submerged regions, murky mud shelters strange life-forms that seem to be the key to one of the biggest mysteries of life on Earth. These creatures belong to a domain of life called the archaea ...