Animal life began in aquatic environments more than 600 million years ago. Around 500 million years ago, during the Cambrian ...

As climate change outpaces the ability of ecosystems to adapt, scientists are turning to conservation genomics to guide restoration. By sequencing DNA, researchers can identify traits better suited to ...

Deep in the rainforests of Uganda, scientists have watched the largest known group of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) turn ...

Journalists from The Associated Press on Saturday witnessed widespread destruction at a Shiite religious complex in Zanjan, a ...

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This is one of the reasons why it is known as the King of trees. Old sages knew that the peepal tree was special, and so they wanted to protect it and this is why it is considered a sacred tree. In ...

This question of why some branches of the tree of life explode into thousands of species, while others remain small, has shaped evolutionary biology since Charles Darwin. My colleague and I have ...

A team of researchers looked at changes in tree richness across the lowland and montane forests of the Andes and Amazon over the last four decades. While their results didn’t show an overall shift in ...

A monkey descending a tree trunk often keeps its head up, moving almost like a cautious climber backing down a ladder. Squirrels and many other mammals, by contrast, tend to go headfirst. That ...

My work is at a nexus between evolutionary psychology and the psychology of religion. I often wonder things like why religions evolved different food practices and why they have different religious ...

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