Viruses are the most abundant known biological entities in the ocean and play central role in microbial ecology.

Two well-preserved tail vertebrae unearthed near the Uruguay River in the 1980s have now been described as a new species of ...

Ancient proteins identify two fossil fragments from northern China as Denisovan, linking molecular evidence to a substantial fossil collection. Skull, jaw and tooth comparisons reveal a varied ...

Whenever anything is written about the Denisovans, the word "mysterious" is almost guaranteed to appear. That is because we just don't know a lot about this extinct human group that may have lived in ...

Column No. 197, Drawing the "Material Universe" and the "Spiritual Universe" on a Single Sheet of PaperThe Era Where Geniuses ...

A common garden experiment reveals that plant phylogeny, mycorrhizal type, and leaf traits significantly shape the diversity ...

Researchers have developed a highly resolved molecular phylogeny for 1,178 native angiosperm species in the Netherlands, ...

A 12.7-inch giant isopod from Puerto Rico, filed under the wrong name in Tübingen for decades, is a new species, Bathynomus ...

A new study has found that adaptive molecular convergence — the process by which distantly or unrelated species evolve the ...

A research team has mapped a family of plant gene regulators across cultivated sweetpotato and three wild relatives, ...

Where did Sapiens come from?When thinking about human evolution, for a long time I imagined something like a single ...

This valuable study substantially improves the phylogenetic framework for Kinetoplastea through greatly expanded sampling of free-living neobodonids; the phylogenomic analyses provide convincing ...