By combining data on all known bird species, this tree is the most impressive snapshot yet of one of Earth’s most ...

Researchers have combined decades of scientific data, tracing how all birds are related. This provides an evolutionary map ...

In new research published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, we identify Australia’s earliest known species of tree frog – one that once hopped and croaked around an ancient lake near ...

New discoveries of fossil clawed footprints from Australia, published in Nature, push the origin of reptiles back in time by ...

It's the first observation of "sympatric" evolution: that two species evolved from a common ancestor despite no geographical separation ...

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 ...

Both ancient human species showed signs of simultaneously using their hands to move around – such as by climbing trees – as ...

Technological advancements, stemming from the mind's evolution, have transformed the biosphere into a technosphere, leading to ecological challenges. While some minds remain complacent ...

Engineers are making it easier for researchers from a broad range of backgrounds to understand how different species are evolutionarily related, and support the transformative biological and medical ...

Using fossil specimens, they created a time-calibrated evolutionary tree that delineates the lineages of all major groups of the fishes, allowing them to identify when the rapid diversification began.