Electrical engineers have developed a better way to perform the comparative analysis of entire genomes. This approach can be used to study relationships between different species across geological ...

Researchers at Hokkaido University have developed a new computational tool to help evolutionary biologists analyze complex genetic data to reconstruct the evolutionary history of species and the ...

Genetic analyses have solved the riddle of where a marsupial mole fits on the tree of life: It’s a cousin to bilbies, bandicoots and Tasmanian devils.

The genes that build the cartilage of fish gills were repurposed to build the cartilage in mammals’ outer ears ...

The savanna (sometimes mistakenly spelled as "Savannah," which is in the state of Georgia) describes an African region with ...

The authors present new expression analysis software (TEKRABber) to help analyze expression correlations between transposable elements (TEs) and KRAB zinc finger (KRAB-ZNF) genes in experimentaly ...

The findings help explain why sabre-teeth evolved so many times (at least five independent times in mammals) and also provides a possible explanation for their eventual demise. Their increasing ...

The short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) is one of Australia's most iconic animals. Belonging to a unique group of mammals called "monotremes" (with the platypus as the other prominent member ...

Sabre-toothed predators – best know from the infamous Smilodon – evolved multiple times across different mammal groups ... may have acted as an ‘evolutionary ratchet’, making them highly ...

The short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus)  is one of Australia’s most iconic animals. Belonging to a unique group of mammals called “monotremes” (with the platypus as the other prominent ...