A research team has created a comprehensive evolutionary tree of all bird species, integrating data from hundreds of studies ...

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 ...

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

The biodiversity of Earth's oceans is disproportionately concentrated in coral reefs—the vibrant undersea ecosystems where ...

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 ...

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

Chimpanzees are often cast as a mirror to our darkest tendencies, embodying violence, territoriality and power struggles. In ...

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.

In 2015, a genetic study in the journal Nature suggested that the hoatzin is the last surviving member of a bird line that branched off the evolutionary tree in its own direction 64 million years ...