A recently discovered creature, Mosura fentoni, has stunned paleontologists with its bizarre, otherworldly features. Unveiled ...

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 ...

That picture (below) comes in the form of a “timetree”—a phylogenetic tree that not only shows how species are related, but also when each split occurred in evolutionary history. The idea is ...

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 ...

We know this because of a biological tool called the tree of life. This "tree" takes ... actually occur," said Ian Barnes, a molecular evolutionary biologist at the Natural History Museum in ...

Researchers have created the most detailed evolutionary tree of birds to date. It proposes an entirely new group of birds that connects the smallest flying birds to the largest, as well as showing in ...

Just as bird watchers may use binoculars to add to their species lists, scientists interested in bird evolution may use computational tools to clarify avian lineages. Indeed, such tools have ...

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 ...

The family tree is detailed in a study published December 4 in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution and offers insight into the role that the environment has historically played on crocodile ...