If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

From bacteria to birds, the tree of life is massive—and full of twists. Let’s see how well I actually understand what ...

In Charles Darwin’s world-changing work On the Origin of Species, the naturalist make use of the millennia-old metaphor in which all life is represented by a tree.He writes that “the ...

Scientists studied rare butterfly fossils and collected DNA from nearly 2,300 species to create the ultimate tree of life and learn where butterflies originated when they first appeared on Earth ...

The finding settles a central question about the evolution of the entire tree of animal life. All animal life is descended from a single common ancestor — a multicellular organism that most ...

In a new article published in Frontiers in Bioinformatics, biologists Dr. Jack M Craig, Dr. Blair Hedges, and Dr. Sudhir Kumar, all at Temple University, have built an evolutionary tree that ...

By combining data on all known bird species, this tree is the most impressive snapshot yet of one of Earth’s most awe-inspiring classes of animal. Scientists Mapped the Evolution of 11,000 Bird ...

Without this void in the once-intricate tree of life, evolution might have ushered relatives into the modern age that would have made birds' reptilian roots more immediately clear.

That allowed the team behind the Nature paper to design new tools for sequencing nuclear genes from a huge variety of flowering plants, said William Baker, who leads the Kew Gardens Tree of Life ...