Highly valued economically, ecologically and culturally, the white oak (Quercus alba) is a keystone forest species and is one of the most abundant trees across much of eastern North America. It also ...

Highly valued economically, ecologically and culturally, the white oak (Quercus alba) is a keystone forest species and is one ...

Arachnid evolution involved multiple land transitions, not just one. Spiders and scorpions evolved key traits through gene ...

Chinese scientists have unearthed the oldest short-tailed bird fossil, dating back about 150 million years, in east China's ...

This approach was developed by Carl Linnaeus in the 1730s, and it works by grouping animals ... evolutionary history and find ...

Discover the remarkable bird fossil from Antarctica that is rewriting the story of bird evolution. Learn how this 69-million-year-old bird challenges previous theories.

We learned at school that there are five different classes of animals. These are mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians. However, this knowledge, long enshrined in textbooks, does not seem to ...

IN the present volume Mr. Romanes redeems a part of the promise which he gave us in his “Animal Intelligence ... identity of the process of mental evolution from its first obscure manifestations ...

The truffles — a type of fungi found across the globe and revered as rare culinary delicacies — have since been studied ...

The findings will be of broad interest to developmental and evolutionary biologists. Body axis specification – the process that establishes directional organisation in animals, such as head-to ...

Evolutionary relationships, or phylogeny, involves studying evolutionary paths or lineages of organisms and is often represented by a phylogenetic tree. A phylogenetic tree shows the points at which ...