Plants that reproduce exclusively by self-pollination arise from populations with extremely low diversity to begin with. The research not only adds a facet to possible evolutionary strategies, but ...

A team of researchers studied the properties of membranes to understand how these cellular structures influenced the chemistry of life on Earth as it began.

Increasingly severe cyclones, grazing by invasive goats, and persistent turmoil in Yemen have threatened the survival of the ...

More than a century ago, archaeologists excavated a Viking ship buried in the ground at the Oseberg farm in Tønsberg, Norway. Inside the unusuall ...

Chimpanzees drum with regular rhythm when they beat on tree trunks, a new study shows ... His mother didn’t like her life sentence. This is what a judge had to say. Gabriel Fernandez, 8 ...

A new analysis of 371 bouts of chimpanzee drumming demonstrates that the chimps “clearly play their instruments — the tree trunks — with regular rhythms,” said University of Amsterdam ...

(AP) — Chimpanzees drum with regular rhythm when they beat on tree trunks, a new study shows. Chimpanzees and humans last shared a common ancestor around 6 million years ago.Scientists suspect ...