For the first time, scientists have created a comprehensive evolutionary tree of all known bird species, synthesizing data ...

This "tree" takes the form of a diagram that maps the relationships between plants, animals and other organisms ... a molecular evolutionary biologist at the Natural History Museum in the United ...

Seed plants, such as soybeans, store large amounts of protein in specialized organelles called protein storage vacuoles.

Written with clarity and wit by two top scientists, North American Tree Squirrels illuminates the everyday lives of gray and ...

The humble mite, a tiny invertebrate that typically lives in small chambers on the underside of leaves, plays a mighty role ...

One dataset used in the study looked at tree species abundance in the United States. Virginia’s forests, among the nation’s ...

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.

University of Bath provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. If you look different to your close relatives, you may have felt separate from your family. As a child, during particularly ...

In this striking study, science writer Black (The Last Days of the Dinosaurs) presents vignettes illustrating the complex interplay between animals, plants, and the environment from 1.2 billion ...

By physically engineering their environments, megafauna such as dinosaurs curbed fruit seed sizes—a role that now may be ...

Why it's awesome: The hoatzin is often regarded as one of the world's strangest birds. Hatchlings are born with clawed wings ...

Now, a team of scientists have mapped the crocodile family tree, including their extinct ... “With a million plant and animal species perilously close to extinction, understanding the key ...