Researchers descended more than 35,700 feet (10,900 meters) below sea level to collect biological samples that revealed ...

Convergent evolution occurs when organisms that aren’t ... time that species that we assumed were only distantly related had evolved the same or similar adaptations to the same environmental pressures ...

Convergent evolution is responsible for the ... In each case, evolutionary adaptations allow them to exploit a food niche of ants and termites, but the developments occurred independently.

The co-evolution of cancer and ageing protection seems to have deeper roots than just the parallel adaptation of two independent processes. Indeed, recent research has unveiled convergent ...

Prof. HE Shunping's team from the Institute of Hydrobiology (IHB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), along with researchers from the Institute of Deep-Sea Science and Engineering of CAS, ...