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

Why do some ancient animals become fossils while others disappear without a trace? A new study from the University of ...

The Jurassic fossil Juracanthocephalus reveals a key evolutionary link between rotifers and parasitic acanthocephalans, resolving debates about their origins and anatomy. A research team from the Nanj ...

GToTree is a more structured implementation of a workflow I would put together everytime I wanted to make a large-scale phylogenomic tree. What do I mean by large-scale? Anything from a full-blown ...

A classic study in songbirds by Robert MacArthur, one of the founders of modern ecology, suggested that similar wood warblers—insect-eating, colorful forest songbirds—can live in the same trees ...

A basic principle in the field of ecology describes ... MacArthur described how five species of wood warbler that live in the same trees and were thought to be "ecologically equivalent" could ...

Our researchers are developing fast and portable virus sequencing techniques to track viruses in areas with limited medical ...

Aloes feature on stamps, coins and logos and are arguably as iconic in Africa as flat-crowned acacia trees. Many aloes flower during the ... The first phase of phylogenetic research, reconstructing ...

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is expected to plant a young sapling from a historic White House Southern Magnolia tree on Tuesday. The sapling is 12 years old and was grown at the offsite ...