Genetic sharing among evolutionary neighbors all happens through hybrids: the offspring produced when individuals from two ...

University of Nebraska alumnus George Beadle shared the Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology with Edward Tatum for the ...

The sense of smell is vital for animals, as it helps them find food, protect themselves from predators and interact socially. An international research team led by Dr. Quentin Martinez and Dr. Eli ...

Dr. Todd Rosengart, professor and chair of the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine, has ...

Harvard researchers have discovered that cycads—one of the oldest living lineages of seed plants—heat up their reproductive ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

University of Nebraska alumnus George Beadle shared the Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology with Edward Tatum for the ...

Wood warblers, also called New World warblers, are some of the most colorful birds in North America, with more than a hundred ...

Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia.

Fossil skulls reveal how extinct mammals smelled the world, with new research linking olfactory bulb size to gene counts.

The domestic cat is one of the smallest members of the family Felidae — the group that includes lions, tigers, jaguars and cougars. It is also the only member of that family that has been domesticated ...