Pterosaurs originated in the Late Triassic as the first vertebrates to achieve powered flight, initiating more than 150 million years of evolutionary experimentation. Early forms retained long tails ...

A new comparison and analysis of the genomes of species in the genus Malus, which includes the domesticated apple and its wild relatives, revealed the evolutionary relationships among the species and ...

New research by EMBL scientists shows how different modes of cell division used by animals and fungi might have evolved to support diverse life cycles. Cell division is one of the most fundamental ...

Microbial communities are considered particularly diverse—in soil, water and the human body. A common assumption in ecology ...