Scientists have uncovered that mushrooms evolved the ability to make psilocybin not once but twice, using completely ...

Convergent evolution—where distinct species independently evolve similar traits or functions, such as the wings of birds and ...

The new study, led by pharmaceutical microbiology researcher Dirk Hoffmeister, from Friedrich Schiller University Jena, ...

A Chinese research team from the Institute of Zoology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has uncovered a key mechanism explaining why different organisms independently evolve similar functions when ...

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If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

A German-Austrian team led by Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Leibniz-HKI has been able to biochemically demonstrate ...

A new study reveals the surprisingly convergent evolution in the inner ear of mammals. An international research team led by Nicole Grunstra from the University of Vienna and Anne Le Maître from the ...

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Scientists discovered a 167-million-year-old lizard fossil, Breugnathair elgolensis, that has snake-like jaws and teeth but a ...