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Microscope image of one of the closest algal relatives of land plants, a single-celled alga called Mesotaenium endlicherianum (2...

Kylinxia zhangi Professor Yu Liu Yunnan Key Laboratory for Palaeobiology Artists impression of Kylinxia zhangi in li...

Fossil treasure trove from Auckland’s Mangere Wastewater Treatment Plant © Bruce Hayward Shell fossils from the Māng...

Rost9/Shutterstock The 'weird' male Y chromosome has finally been fully sequenced. Can we now understand h...

A new face and partial brain case of Anadoluvius turkae , a fossil hominine - the group that includes African apes and humans – f...

The mutualistic relationship between Gastrodia foetida and its pollinator, both of which primarily feed on mushrooms. The flower...

Female bonobo with young in the wild. Human-like growth spurts in adolescence have also been demonstrated in this primate species...

Gua Sireh, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia Gua Sireh, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia This cave on Borneo has been used for 20,000...

Coyote tobacco Nicotiana attenuata is a plant species native to the Great Basin Desert of the western United States. © Ian ...

What exactly is peer review? Flickr/AJ Cann, CC BY-SA 10 Stages of the Peer Review Process: A Step-by-Step Guide for ...

Urban (left) and rural (right) great tits, Parus major Photo: Caroline Isaksson European great tit, Parus major . Sour...

Morotopithecus , an ape that lived 21 million years ago was used to a habitat that was both grassy and wooded. (Artist's impr...

Nabukelevu (Mount Washington) Jaejay77 via Wikimedia CC BY-SA 4.0 Nabukelevu, Kadav, Fiji. Eruption remembered in r...

A mural in the Page Museum depicts hundreds of species whose fossils have been found in the La Brea Tar Pits. Credit: Mark H...

Three different early elephants, each specialising in different food plants, share their Kenyan environment with other herbivores...

Wandering Albatross, Diomedea exulans . JJ Harrison via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 Wandering albatross, Diomedea ...

The Xiongnu built a multiethnic empire on the Mongolian steppe that was connected by trade to Rome, Egypt, and Imperial China. ...

'Ötzi the Iceman' © South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology/Eurac/Marco Samadelli-Gregor Staschitz A facial recons...

Tardigrades are also found in Denmark, in more everyday places, such as in soil, moss and rain gutters. Photo: Getty ...

New research reveals that an extreme glacial cooling around 1.1 million years ago in southern Europe likely led to the extinction...

Cultivated watermelon, Citrullus lanatus Photo: James E. Scarborough via Wikipedia Public Domain Behind the Rind: Ne...

Parasites of morphotype I, found in the vertebrate coprolite. Nonsrirach T, Morand S, et al., (2023) The vertebrate c...

Winged female unmated black ant, Lasius niger , or female 'alates' attended by workers. Black garden ant alate...

A new model describes the self-organization of catalysts involved in metabolic cycles. Different species of catalysts (represente...

While I'm sitting here slowly recovering from COVID-19 which my partner and I probably either picked up in F...

Like a multifunctional gardening tool, the T4A pili of different Acinetobacter strains have evolutionarily modified the ComC pro...

Viruses in circulation What happens in our body when we encounter and fight off a virus like the flu, SARS-CoV-2 or...

Up to Half of all adults will have it Shutterstock Scanning Electron Microscope picture of freshly prepared human dand...

Prehistoric sea creature of the Cambrian period. Photo: Getty The Cambrian seas teemed with new types of animal, such ...