A potted scarlet monkeyflower would die within a few days without water. But multiple natural populations of the species ...

An analysis of ancient and modern DNA suggests the extent of convergent evolution in different peoples around the world is ...

Wild scarlet monkeyflowers in California survived a historic drought by relying on a rapid evolution, marking the first time the process has been observed in the wild.

For the first time, scientists have used DNA preserved in ancient sediments to examine how a major natural disaster affected ...

Genetics helped scarlet monkeyflower rebound after California’s megadrought — a real‑world example of rapid evolution.

A research team led by scientists at the Butantan Institute in São Paulo, Brazil, has completed the most extensive genetic ...

Wolves living inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone show genetic and immune-system signals that researchers say may be linked ...

In their fight against climate change, west coast wildflower species like the scarlet monkeyflower have found ways to endure ...

The story of a wildflower that adapted to a severe drought in California raises hopes that evolution will come to the rescue ...

When the Chernobyl nuclear disaster happened on April 26, 1986, the region became one of the most heavily contaminated areas on the planet. A 1,000-square-mile area surrounding the doomed nuclear ...