SARS-CoV-2 is just one strain of a group of respiratory viruses, known as sarbecoviruses, that are mainly hosted by horseshoe ...

The biodiversity of Earth's oceans is disproportionately concentrated in coral reefs—the vibrant undersea ecosystems where ...

While dogs and cats are genetically unrelated, breeding for certain features is making some dog and cat breeds look more and ...

“We show that if you can see where a virus is evolving ahead of time, you can begin to make future-proof vaccines,” said ...

The team argues that the reptile’s alligator-like appearance was likely a matter of convergent evolution rather than a family resemblance. New York Institute of Technology paleontologist Adam ...

Despite being separated by millions of years of evolution, dogs and cats have evolved similar skull shapes due to ...

Birds fighting for nesting spots show repeated aggression and shared brain gene patterns, suggesting evolution may repeat.

Imagine a quiet forest in Australia, sunlight filtering through eucalyptus leaves, and a sleepy koala munching away. Now, ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have shown that the Cryptosporidium parasite exports a protein into infected ...

Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same ...

Clownfishes (Amphiprioninae) are a fascinating example of a marine radiation ... we demonstrate that the host sea anemones are the drivers of convergent evolution in clownfish color pattern and ...

When the DNA changes, the cell is able to make new proteins, sometimes with new functions, and in this way proteins are understood to be an integral part of evolution. But new research is finding ...