Scientists are working to close the gap with an emerging discipline called conservation genomics: sequencing an organism’s ...

New chromosome-level evidence suggests Medicago evolution followed a more complex, and surprising path, than previously ...

A rare fossil discovery is shedding light on the “missing years” of early sponge evolution. Scientists found a ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: • Scientists discovered that life rebounded at extraordinary speed after the asteroid impact 66 million years ago, with new plankton species evolving ...

As global warming accelerates, extreme heat waves are causing widespread death of tropical reef corals. Most corals rely on ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists worry that our climate is changing at a rate that the usual slow progress of evolution can’t match. A new study shows evidence of ...

Evolution works over millennia. Climate change is moving far faster. That mismatch is killing some of the planet's most vital ecosystems, from California's towering redwoods to the seagrass meadows ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As climate change outpaces the ability of ecosystems to adapt, scientists are turning to conservation genomics to guide ...

Scientists from UC San Diego and Australia have engineered bacteria that detect the presence of tumor DNA in live organisms. (File image courtesy UCSD) Evolution works over millennia. Climate change ...