Asteraceae, a family of flowering plants, are the most diverse group of flowering plants in the world. This plant family ...

A comprehensive review of dodo science offers new insights into the biology and behavior of the much-ridiculed bird.

A University of Arizona researcher was part of a study strongly linking pandemic origin to the seafood market in China.

A new study of genetic samples from the Huanan Market in Wuhan, China, could point to an animal origin of COVID-19, but controversial figures support it.

Researchers uncover a 320-million-year-old fossil site in Massachusetts, revealing over 130 species of reptiles, amphibians, ...

A University of Arizona scientist is a co-author in an international study that has zeroed in on a short list of animals from ...

With genetic samples from the infamous Wuhan market, a new study makes the case that raccoon dogs are likely the animal that ...

a paleoanthropologist from Harvard University's Department of Human Evolutionary Biology. (Alex is also a regular Discover contributor.) Most fossil remains from the period are fragmentary, with parts ...

Where do new genes come from? That's the question a team of biological sciences researchers from the U of A set out to answer ...

Biological scientists at the U of A propose a new model for understanding how new genes and novel functions can originate through recycling and innovation of “junk.” ...

A Mississippi State biologist has discovered a new parasitic wasp species that uniquely targets adult flies, a scientific ...

Glen Hood, Ph.D., assistant professor of biological sciences in Wayne State University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences ...