Birds that are related, such as Darwin's finches, but that vary in beak size and behavior specially evolved to their habitat are examples of a process called speciation. It has long been thought ...

Color Pattern Spurs Speciation In Tropical Fish Date: June 14, 2007 Source: McGill University Summary: A team of researchers has provided the first example of how color patterns on a coral reef ...

Hybrid speciation refers to the establishment of novel hybrid genotypes that are reproductively isolated from their parental species and genetically stabilized. Most frequently, reproductive isolation ...

New evidence for homoploid hybrid speciation in animals is presented in the June 12, 2006 edition of the journal Nature. In a matter of months, butterflies sporting the yellow and red wing color ...

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, Vol. 38 (2007), pp. 459-487 (29 pages) Sympatric speciation, the evolution of reproductive isolation without geographic barriers, remains highly ...

Trees get most of the love, but diatoms, a group of photosynthetic microalgae, produce 20% of Earth's oxygen and are the foundation of aquatic food webs. The prevalence and diversity of diatoms have ...

A new study reports that speciation and rapid evolution of some animals is being caused, through various means, by humans.

Some 390 million years ago in the ancient ocean, marine animals began colonizing depths previously uninhabited. New research ...

While Madagascar is famous for its incredible diversity of plants and animals, a new study suggests that the island’s rate of speciation has slowed to a crawl. The research, published last week ...