Deep oceans contain microbes with yet-to-be-discovered properties that could drive future innovations in biotechnology.
The simplified summary diagram shows the relative diversity of fossils in the past 2 billion years. Simple eukaryotic cells dominated the first half a billion years. Algae appeared around 1,200 ...
The British evolutionary biologist JBS Haldane is said to have quipped that any divine being evidently had "an ordinate fondness for beetles." This "bon mot" conveyed an important truth: the "tree of ...