The story of primates is a tale of incredible variety and ancient roots, told through the lens of science, DNA, and time ...

Shrimp look an awful lot like bugs. The exoskeletons, jointed legs and compound eyes of both groups of living things give ...

Thus, understanding the evolutionary history of living species amounts to understanding where on the tree of life these species' distinctive traits arose. Moreover, phylogenetic trees serve as ...

From the genius and torment of Charles Darwin to the scientific revolution that spawned the tree of life, from the power of sex to drive evolutionary change to the importance of mass extinctions ...

“Evolution isn't just a story about where ... to experience some of the evolutionary wonders contained in the tree of life." The other tool that came out of their research is a puzzle-based ...

This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great ... and distant kin in a vast family tree of life. The implications are breathtaking; if we could travel ...

Until now, it’s been very hard for scientists to establish a detailed timeline of the early evolution of bacteria.

Convergent evolution occurs when organisms that aren’t closely ... We observe this phenomenon all over the tree of life, from mammals and invertebrates to plants and microorganisms. Species face ...

An international collaboration between four scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published new research in ...

But over the last several months, those uplifting photo captions have been slowly replaced with eulogies for the tree and reflections on its life.“I visited the Tree of Life today for the first ...

Without this void in the once-intricate tree of life, evolution might have ushered relatives into the modern age that would ...