A global catalog shows how creatures across the tree of life balance rigidity with flexibility in remarkably consistent ways ...

Why do you have five fingers? Why not ten, or twenty, or one? Why do so many animals have five fingers? Five seems to be the perfect number for most hands. Oddly, the first vertebrates to come onto ...

The Baobab is one of the strangest-looking trees on Earth, and has been described as an “upside-down tree” and even the “tree of life” due to its nutrient-rich fruit. While six of the eight species of ...

In 1997, I had a vision that I drew out, it would change my life. It depicted the evolution of complexity that started with energy and grew into the dimensions of matter, life, mind, and culture. The ...

A tree of life based on genes from across the nuclear genome and containing nearly 60% of all angiosperm genera unveils the complex evolutionary history of flowering plants. This tree both ...