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 ...

Paleontologists unearthed fossils in the Grand Canyon dating back more than 500 million years that offer a new look into a ...

Birds are the most diverse land vertebrate on the planet, and now scientists have constructed a complete evolutionary tree of the 11,000 or so known species. This data came from hundreds of ...

Scientists Mapped the Evolution of 11,000 Bird Species to Build the Avian Tree of Life By combining data on all known bird species, this tree is the most impressive snapshot yet of one of Earth ...

That’s how Moody’s team started. They built an evolutionary tree representing the relationships among 350 living bacterial species and 350 archaean species. Then, they analyzed the evolutionary ...

The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, according to a new study. It is the first time researchers use data ...

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 ...

The Tree of Life Max Telford (John Murray (UK) W. W. Norton (US, 11 November)) Most of us can imagine a tree of life; some can even sketch one out. Branches coming off branches coming off branches ...

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 ...

This data is now part of the Open Tree of Life (OpenTree) project—a collaboration between evolutionary biologists and taxonomists which aims to construct the evolutionary history of all known ...