Angiosperms, also known as flowering plants, represent the most diverse group of seed plants, and their origin and evolution ...

A reduced genome in an island species raises evolutionary questions.

A new investigation led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine’s Human Genome Sequencing Center, the Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain, and ...

A bizarre and ugly fish that has been around for hundreds of millions of years has been discovered to have the most DNA of any animal ever found. These South American lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa) ...

Structural variations (SVs)—large-scale changes in DNA sequence—play a crucial role in shaping traits such as yield, quality, and environmental adaptation in crops.

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...

A groundbreaking study has found that evolution is not as unpredictable as previously thought, which could allow scientists to explore which genes could be useful to tackle real-world issues such as ...

Four billion years ago, Earth was violent, hot, and unstable. Yet new research suggests that by then, life had already ...