An international genomics study has revealed that early Asians undertook humanity's longest known prehistoric migration. These early humans, who roamed the earth over 100,000 years ago, are believed ...

Earth's magnetic field was so weak it almost disappeared. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, complex life emerged.

Fossil tracks found in Australia push the origin of reptiles back by 40 million years, altering the timeline of tetrapod ...

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal, dated to around 350 ...

To clarify these questions, the researchers analyzed the family tree of both viral strains using genome sequence data ...

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 studies ...

Why rates of phenotypic evolution vary across the tree of life is still not well known. A widespread view holds that fast rates result from the colonization of empty adaptive zones, or sets of similar ...

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

The research team used 3D imaging to view inside the well-preserved specimen and identify its spot on ants’ evolutionary tree. “I didn’t believe I could find something like that,” says ...

They created a complete evolutionary tree of bird species by combining data on 9,239 species published in nearly 300 studies between 1990 and 2024 and additional curated data on another 1,000 species.