Potatoes as we know them today are the product of a hybridization that took place 9 million years ago between two plants, one ...

Who was the last common ancestor of Neanderthals and us modern humans? The last common ancestor of both the Homo sapiens and ...

Central to that search is LUCA—the last universal common ancestor. LUCA sits at the root of the evolutionary tree, where two great domains of life—Bacteria and Archaea—split.

All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA—and it likely lived on Earth only 400 million years after its formation.

Researchers say they have finally uncovered the mysterious origins of one of our favorite carbs: the humble potato.

"All of these guys — snakes and turtles and crocodiles and birds, and the dinosaurs when they were around — they all come back to one common ancestor," Stervander explained, and so under the ...

Scientists believe the 17 species of finches on the Galapagos Islands can be traced back to one common ancestor: the dull-colored grassquit.

The species is now considered to be a crown squamate, a member of the earliest clade, or group, descended from one common ancestor. This group includes all of the descendants of the first squamate ...

“It’s not that there was one common ancestor that had prickles, and then it radiated out over 400 million years to all these others, and then they were lost sporadically.