Long before humans cultivated crops or sailed between continents, a group of plant viruses was already evolving among wild ...

Recent research findings indicate that many of the plant pathogens affecting agriculture today originated during an earlier era than originally believed. Analysis performed by an international team of ...

A new study has provided fresh insights into how animals such as the woolly mammoth, musk ox and arctic fox evolved to survive the cold during the ice age. A team of palaeontologists and ...

Divers found a sinkhole in Florida's Steinhatchee River. It holds fossils from nearly half a million years ago. These ancient ...