Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have identified the genes that allow an organism to switch between living as single ...

Researchers identified the fruitless gene as a key regulator of social begging behaviour in male honeybees. Acting during ...

A reduced genome in an island species raises evolutionary questions.

Researchers have reconstructed ancient herpesvirus genomes from Iron Age and medieval Europeans, revealing that HHV-6 has ...

Hyderabad scientists decoded the ‘Evolutionary GPS’ of mites and ticks, showing they belong to two independent groups. Using ...

Researchers study house sparrow genetics to understand survival, evolution, and how species respond to environmental change.

DNA analysis shows strong ties to Early Bronze Age Sicily, with little influence from the eastern Mediterranean. There’s also ...

A major evolutionary theory says most genetic changes don’t really matter, but new evidence suggests that’s not true. Researchers found that helpful mutations happen surprisingly often. The twist is ...

Between roughly 600,000 and one million years ago, Africa’s fossil record goes strangely quiet. Genetic evidence suggests ...

The oldest fossilised remains of complex animals appear suddenly in the fossil record, and as if from nowhere, in rocks that ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have identified the genes that allow an organism to switch between living as single ...

Sponges are among Earth's most ancient animals, but exactly when they evolved has long puzzled scientists. Genetic information from living sponges, as well as chemical signals from ancient rocks, ...