Humans evolved late in Earth history. While this timing inspired the conclusion that humanlike life is a cosmic improbability, a new study pushes back.

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An area on the outside of a tree trunk that appears to be stained white or looks wet during summer is likely bacterial ...

Birds are the most diverse land vertebrates. Some studies suggest their earliest diversification dates back to the Jurassic ...

Yet only “Gray Tree” has scale-invariant branch diameters. When Mondrian removes the scale invariance in “Blooming Apple Tree ...

The field of paleo-inspired robotics is opening up a new way to turn back time and studying prehistoric animals.

Most major biological molecules, including all proteins, DNA and RNA, point in one direction or another. In other words, they ...

New research has revealed a quantity related to the complexity and proportions of a tree's branches that artists have ...

Kate Rodriguez-Clark is an animal matchmaking guru. Among her responsibilities as a population ecologist for the Smithsonian, ...

Evolution is traditionally associated with a process of increasing complexity and gaining new genes. However, the explosion ...

Human Design is a “transformative system that blends the ancient wisdom of astrology, the Chinese I Ching, the Judaic Tree of ...