It’s pretty rare, but just like us mammals, some flies actually give live birth. One of them is a parasitic fly species Ormia ...

A team of archaeologists has announced a major finding relating to the Neanderthals. They announced the finding in the ...

PROTEUS, a system designed to harness “directed evolution,” can speed the process up by years, or even decades.

Changes to size, teeth and ears in various rodents in Chicago found to be part of their adaptation to human development.

“Ancient DNA has produced a revolution in our understanding of recent human origins,” said Daniel Green, field program ...

Proteins degrade over time, making their history hard to study. But new research has uncovered ancient proteins in the enamel ...

The lush, tropical regions of Central and South America have long dazzled scientists with their plant diversity. These ...

Australian scientists have successfully developed a research system that uses 'biological artificial intelligence' to design ...

Scientists traced the evolution of pregnancy by studying fetal-maternal cell communication across six mammal species, ...

Dolphins and orcas have reached a critical point in their evolution, forever locking them into the ocean. New research ...

Mitochondria are the body's "energy factories," and their proper function is essential for life. Inside mitochondria, a set ...

The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville never had a faculty member in the National Academy of Sciences -- until ...