In a remarkable discovery off the rugged coastline of California, researchers have encountered a living coelacanth, a ...

For decades, many scientists have relied on the "hard steps" model to suggest that intelligent life is rare — the improbable ...

The study tracks mammoth evolution over a million years using mitogenomes, showing shifts in diversity and lineage tied to ...

Professor Emily Jane McTavish and colleagues at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have mapped the evolution of every known bird ...

A new study suggests the platypus and echidna — the only egg-laying mammals — had a water-dwelling ancestor. The finding ...

Researchers at Bar-Ilan University reveal protein changes linked to longevity throughout mammalian evolution. Over the past several decades, human lifespan has steadily increased. However, this progre ...

At a laboratory in Austria's mountainous Tyrol province, scientists are DNA testing about 100 honey samples a month to learn about their composition—and in some cases to determine whether they ...

Researchers have identified a critical amino acid transporter, SlAAP6, that enhances tomato growth and salt tolerance by ...

Imagine a creature so strange, so utterly unlike anything alive today, that even the world’s top scientists had no idea which ...

Leonard Schleifer; Co-Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer, Founder; Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc George Yancopoulos; Co-Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Scientific ...