It's not easy to look at a sea spider and see an animal so representative of its kind that it may help scientists sort out ...

It’s hard not to relate to the little insects that carnivorous plants like the Cape sundew, Venus flytraps and pitcher plants ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts—from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and ...

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 ...

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 ...

But until now, scientists lacked a complete evolutionary timeline that includes them all. The most recent and detailed phylogenomic tree assembled to date included 239 primate species.

For the first time, researchers used data from protein shapes and combined it with data from genomic sequences to improve the reliability of evolutionary trees—which they describe as a critical ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A tree of life diagram for all flowering plant genera based on DNA analysis.(Image credit ...

The new family tree is breaking new ground in the long journey to unravel the mysteries of bird evolution. According to this updated bird family tree, a group containing flamingos and grebes ...

By updating the family tree for birds, the scientists show evolutionary patterns that formed following the cataclysmic mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago ...