A QUT-led study has found how increasing aridity and habitat variation and the subsequent emergence of grasslands shaped the ...

Tree thinking is a pedagogical approach that emphasises the interpretation and construction of phylogenetic trees to elucidate evolutionary relationships. In the context of evolutionary biology ...

Deep beneath the ocean’s surface lives a creature shaped by total darkness, crushing pressure, and extreme scarcity. The deep ...

Biologists have long drawn the animal family tree with a hazy base, unsure which creature first split from the common ...

Sitting in my campsite at Goblin Valley State Park, I saw an antelope ground squirrel standing erect on its back feet, which I found amusing. I soon found that this was a common posture evoked by ...

Carnivorous plants look like botanical oddities, but their behavior is not a gimmick. It is a precise evolutionary solution ...

A QUT-led study has found how increasing aridity and habitat variation and the subsequent emergence of grasslands shaped the evolution of modern ...

Joshua trees rely on a single moth species to reproduce.

Lipstick vines get their name from their bright red, tube-shaped flowers. But one member of this group of plants has lost its lipstick-like appearance— its flowers are shorter, wider, and yellowish ...

In the early 1990s, Keith Willmott and a friend, both undergraduate students from the United Kingdom, arrived in Ecuador with ...

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...