The conservation of genome regulatory elements over long periods of evolution is not limited to vertebrates, as previously ...

Decomposition is essential to all ecosystems, both on land and in the ocean. In marine environments, decomposition and ...

The conservation of genome regulatory elements over long periods of evolution is not limited to vertebrates, as previously ...

Genome evolution is the process by which a genome changes in structure over time, through mutation, horizontal gene transfer, and sexual reproduction. The study of genome evolution involves multiple ...

Sea cucumbers are the champions of organ regrowth because they direct their wound healing abilities towards restoring their organs. The discovery that Holothuria glaberrima uses similar cellular ...

A vast, mostly invisible ecosystem shapes life on Earth, from the food we eat to the air we breathe. And the more scientists learn, the more they say it’s in trouble Photographs by Shane Gross; Text ...

But cleverness is hard to define - animals have to contend with different challenges in life and what might be clever or ...

When a western banded gecko wants to eat a defenseless cricket or worm, it just gulps it down. “Pretty boring,” says Malachi Whitford, an ecologist at Clovis Community College, in California. But if ...

Challenger Deep is the deepest part of all the oceans on Earth. Animals that live there have to deal with the most hostile ...