Genomes are key to unlocking life's evolutionary history. The presence and absence of certain genetic sequences and mutations ...

All species on Earth, both living and extinct, are related. We know this because of a biological tool called the tree of life. This "tree" takes the form of a diagram that maps the relationships ...

Inheritance is the passing of traits from parents to offspring. Our modern understanding of inheritance comes from a set of principles proposed by Austrian monk and researcher Gregor Mendel in 1865.

In recent years, Archaea's connection to us has been pretty huge and surprising. The unexpected discovery of an entirely new domain of life was pretty huge and surprising - even if archaea do just ...

In ecology, biotic and abiotic factors encompass all the living and non-living parts of an ecosystem. Biotic factors pertain to living organisms and their relationships. Abiotic factors are the ...

Luke Dunning receives funding from The Natural Environment Research Council. Lara Pereira and Pauline Raimondeau do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...

What does an ecologist do? Ecologists are life scientists who specialise in studying ecosystems and the relationships between organisms and environments within those ecosystems. They study ecosystems ...

Merlin Sheldrake, a biologist and author, is doing his best to show the world all the amazing things fungi can do to benefit life on a damaged planet. By Tatiana Schlossberg About 500 million years ...