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New evidence-based evolutionary model provides access to the beginning of complex life with unprecedented accuracy.

From fossils and rare genetic ‘gene-swap’ clues, researchers reconstruct fungi’s deep timeline and reveal how they helped shape early Earth ecosystems.

79% of endemic species show signs of decline, highlighting the vulnerability of island biodiversity to ecosystem changes.

In a new Nature study, the genomic, epigenomic, and cell-level characteristics of the mysterious arrow worm have been tied together.

Comparison of symbiotic bacteria to free-living relatives shows the genomic effects of host adaptation.

Small changes to an enzyme suggest how modern humans differ from Neanderthals and Denisovans in biochemistry and behavior.

By mimicking one of their own scents, researchers have found an efficient method of a controlling the highly destructive Crown-of-Thorns Starfish.

Scientists use the Great Oxidation Event and how organisms adapted to it to map bacterial evolution.

Molecular cloaking mechanism explains iconic anemonefish-anemone partnership.

Animal teeth and jaws can now be studied humanely and cost-effectively.

Two of these new species occur in Japan, including one species found in Yanbaru National Park, Okinawa.