Sunlight provides the energy necessary for photosynthesis and growth, but it also exposes plants to harmful ultraviolet-B (UV ...

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

Palaeontologists have got a clearer picture of where turtles fit in the animal kingdom, thanks to analysis of a southern ...

Based on Coll Macià's upper-bound generation interval of about 30 years, there have been at least 10,000 generations of ...

The Euphrates River fueled the "cradle of civilization," and a new study reveals the waterway was born of two other ancient ...

A new study finds that the Euphrates River formed from two separate ancient river systems that merged about 1.6 million years ...

Roughly 500 million years ago, a strange event in the evolution of life on Earth seems to have taken place. The known fossil ...

What scientists called one cavefish turned out to be three. A new cavefish species had been evolving in isolation for eight ...