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

The mystery of life’s beginnings has long captivated scientists. Central to that search is LUCA—the last universal common ...

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

Tyrannosaurus rex evolved in North America, but its direct ancestor came from Asia, crossing a land bridge connecting the continents more than 70 million years ago, according to a new study.

Comb jellies "could repurpose [their] genetic toolkit in different ways like a Swiss knife," said the researchers.

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.

“The evolutionary history of genes is ... advantages here is applying the gene‑tree species‑tree reconciliation approach to such a diverse dataset representing the primary domains of life, Archaea and ...

Approach: Using bioinformatics tools, we reconstructed clonal evolution trees from whole-genome sequencing (WGS) analysis of tumors and inferred migration patterns to determine metastatic seeding.

Using state-of-the-art evolutionary analyses through computer ... we may expect to find it hiding in many other forms across the tree of life.

Phylogenetics is the study of evolutionary relationships among organisms, typically using molecular data to construct phylogenetic trees. Phylogenomics extends ... proposal for the domains Archaea, ...

Could aquatic mammals, such as whales, orcas, and bottlenose dolphins, ever evolve to live on land again? It seems the chances of this are actually vanishingly small, as the adaptations that allow ...

However, the adaptive value, mechanistic diversity, and evolution of epigenome-targeted DNA repair systems across the tree of life remain unresolved. Here, we investigated the evolution of histone ...