By combining data on all known bird species, this tree is the most impressive snapshot yet of one of Earth’s most ...

Professor Emily Jane McTavish and colleagues at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have mapped the evolution of every known bird ...

Max Telford's new book, The Tree of Life, is a millennia-spanning exploration of the history – and future – of evolutionary ...

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

Scientists know relatively little about archaea compared to their bacterial counterparts, but evidence of their roles in ...

The study was also able to determine the evolutionary tree of wild rice, showing when new species emerged. This history offers clues for when rice underwent significant stress that stimulated ...

As with so many other traits, one could expect aggressiveness to run in families, being more prevalent in some branches of birds' evolutionary tree than in others. What Lipshutz and her team found ...

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 ...

As with so many other traits, one could expect aggressiveness to run in families, being more prevalent in some branches of birds’ evolutionary tree than in others. What Lipshutz and her team ...

This Pokemon GO Mega Evolution tier list divides the 43 presently available options into five tiers — S, A, B, C, and D — based on how good they are in PvE battles. Critters in the S-tier are ...

and mammals have developed complex brain circuits independently, despite sharing a common ancestor. These findings challenge the traditional view of brain evolution and demonstrate that, while ...