Beneficial mutations happen quite frequently, but the world changes too fast for them to stick.

Thanks to a historical data archive, Swiss researchers are able to draw conclusions about the changes in the diversity of two ...

This exhibition inside a China museum presents a fascinating collection of animal skulls, anatomical displays, and ...

When most people imagine scientists discovering new species, they probably still picture an expedition into the unknown. A ...

Birds are the most diverse land vertebrate on the planet, and now scientists have constructed a complete evolutionary tree of the 11,000 or so known species. This data came from hundreds of studies ...

Introduction : how to write history of biology -- The place of biology in the sciences and its conceptual structure -- The changing intellectual milieu of biology Diversity of life. Macrotaxonomy, the ...

The idea of a species is fundamental to the way that many people understand the structure of life on Earth. But ask 10 specialists how they define the concept and you might get 10 answers. In this ...

Learn how researchers identified Calamaria incredibilis, a newly described reed snake from southern China with a blunt tail ...

Shillong, May 30 (PTI) A team of researchers has discovered a new species of cascade-dwelling frog in Nagaland, highlighting the rich but unexplored biodiversity of the northeast, officials said on ...