A new study has rewritten the conventionally understood evolutionary history of certain proteins critical for electrical signaling in the nervous system. The study, led by Penn State researchers, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: A Rodrigues fruit bat hangs on a perch in the Masoala Rainforest hall at the zoo in Zurich March 26, 2013.

The study's findings show mergansers arrived in the New Zealand region at least seven million years ago from the Northern Hemisphere, in a separate colonisation event to that which led to the ...

In a new article published in Frontiers in Bioinformatics, biologists Dr. Jack M Craig, Dr. Blair Hedges, and Dr. Sudhir Kumar, all at Temple University, have built an evolutionary tree that ...

Dianjunus rex produces structures up to 50 centimeters tall and belongs to a newly described fungal family from Yunnan, China ...

Fossils are used to reconstruct evolutionary history, but not all animals and plants become fossils and many fossils are destroyed before we can find them (e.g., the rocks that contain the fossils are ...

A new study finds Indian spectacled cobras share a largely uniform genetic lineage, while Sri Lankan cobras form a distinct ...

Phylogenies, fossils and functional genes : the evolution of echolocation in bats / Emma C. Teeling, Serena Dool and Mark Springer -- Systematics and paleobiogeography of early bats / Thierry Smith ..

The origin of blood cells can be traced back approximately 700 million years to when human ancestors were single-celled organisms. When these ancestors evolved into multicellular organisms (animals), ...