Sequencing bacterial genomes allows scientists to study bacterial diversity, immunity, and the human microbiome, but it ...

What if 65 million years ago a meteor had not struck Earth, contributing to the extinction of the dinosaurs? In 1982, Canadian paleontologist Dale Russell proposed a hypothesis suggesting that ...

Two species of snakes, the green tree python and the Kapuas mud snake, exhibit fascinating color-changing abilities to adapt to their environments. Th ...

In the broad context of understanding the relationship between timing of seed germination and adaptation of a plant species to its habitat, the purpose of this study was to purse an observation of pre ...

Animals often face changing environments, and behavioral flexibility allows them to rapidly and adaptively respond to abiotic factors that vary more or less regularly. However, abiotic factors that ...

The morphology of organisms is generally well matched to their environment, presumably because expression of their genes is tailored either at the population or the individual level to suit local ...