A tiny, lizardlike carnivore that skittered across swampy ground roughly 300 million years ago helped set the stage for some of the largest plant eaters the planet has ever seen. Its story is a ...

A simple change in species composition can impact the course of evolution: A research team from the University of Bern and the University of British Columbia in Canada shows that the presence of just ...

The mode of TRPM2 channel activation by ADPR and Ca 2+ evolved through at least three identifiable stages, from a relatively simple one in TRPM2s from Cnidaria, such as the nvTRPM2, to an intermediate ...

When you learned about the history of human evolution in school, there's a good chance you were shown one all-too-familiar image. That picture probably showed a conga line of human-like creatures, ...

Protein evolution plays a key role in many biological processes that are essential for life – but what does it have to do with physics? Schematic overview of procedure used to generate simulated ...