Sometimes, the most significant scientific discoveries happen by accident. Scientists have long known that whole-genome ...

Throughout evolution, plants have continuously adapted to survive in changing environments. Apart from complex structural ...

Asgard archaea may have led to the evolution of eukaryotic life ETH Zurich researchers identify actin and microtubule ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

Leibniz Institute for Primate Research and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics have discovered ...

A rendering of the appearance of the human cell lineage big science research facility Photo: Chinese Academy of Sciences.

But phylogenetic analyses suggest that complex cells emerged from within the archaea ... who is currently interrogating such specimens to order certain events of early eukaryote evolution. “We do have ...

Feathers, essential for thermoregulation, flight, and communication in birds, originate from simple appendages known as proto ...

When evolution skeptics want to attack Darwin's ... Eventually, the light-sensitive spot evolved into a retina, the layer of cells and pigment at the back of the human eye. Over time a lens ...