In a new study of viral abundance over a short time frame in the Sargasso Sea, researchers found that almost all viruses with ...

Newfound fossils from China suggest that complex animals were around millions of years earlier than thought, among them ...

A rare butterfly fossil with exceptional detail offers the first clear evidence of an ancient emperor butterfly lineage and ...

A Cambrian fossil has been identified as the oldest known member of the chelicerates, a group that includes spiders and ...

For millions of fans, these powers belong to the world of Pokémon, but nature has been harnessing many of them long before ...

New research is significantly revising a widely cited evolutionary model, the Inhibitory Cascade Mode (ICM). Benjamin Auerbach, professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the ...

Scientists have discovered fossils showing that complex animals existed millions of years before the Cambrian explosion, reshaping the timeline of life on Earth. The finds reveal a strange, diverse ...

The notorious disease known as sleeping sickness can lurk inside a host for months or even years before serious symptoms ...

The first clearly identified fossil emperor moth, Apaturinae, provides new insights into the evolution of butterflies. The newly described genus and species is 34 to 28 million years old and ...

The diagram below is an example of part of a food web in a Scottish loch. If one species is lost from a food web all the others are affected. Other populations will also be affected. For instance, the ...