This month, George Tiley began his NC State appointment as an assistant professor of plant and microbial biology. Right ...

An updated evolutionary model shows that living systems evolve in a split-and-hit-the-gas dynamic, where new lineages appear in sudden bursts rather than during a long marathon of gradual changes.

First-of-its Kind Study Shows That Evolutionary Explosion Plays Prominent Part in Species Diversification Researchers have ...

Small, colorless, and blind, amblyopsid cavefishes inhabit subterranean waters throughout the eastern United States. In a new ...

Evidence is mounting that the evolution of our species is more convoluted than we imagined — more like a braided stream than ...

Scientists have found that a single tree can be home to a trillion microbial cells — an invisible ecosystem that is only ...

A time-calibrated evolutionary family tree of all the archosaurs more closely related to crocodiles than to birds.

Learn more about the amblyopsid cavefishes, the eyeless fish that inhabit the caves of eastern North America, whose evolution can uncover the age of difficult-to-date cave systems.

Recent scientific discoveries suggest that Earth was once home to enormous trees, dwarfing today’s tallest redwoods. These ...

A shark fossil found in limestone quarries in northeastern Mexico shines light on the appearance of an ancient predator.

Evolutionary trees help to convict men who knowingly infected women with HIV Explore how HIV evolution played a key role in the Anthony Eugene Whitfield court case, illustrating legal and scientific ...