Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena have now discovered that the fruit fly Drosophila busckii has developed a tolerance to the toxic sulfur compound dimethyldisulfide ...

From schools of fish darting away from sharks to flocks of starlings swirling through the sky, the animal kingdom is full of ...

Alignment and sequencing errors are a major concern in molecular evolution, and this valuable study represents a welcome improvement for genome-wide scans of positive selection. This new method seems ...

Todd Chrisley and Julie Chrisley were released from prison May 28 after being pardoned by President Donald Trump. Read about their family, including Savannah, Chase, Grayson, Lindsie, Kyle and Chloe.

Verdict Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree is an interesting Frankenstein of action-RPG ideas that never quite comes to life.

Still, the Sycamore Gap tree was far from Britain's oldest tree. According to the Woodland Trust that is a yew tree named "Fortingall," believed to be 2,000 to 3,000 years old.

Phylogenetic analysis with equal weighting of all informative characters resulted in a single parsimony tree with consistency index (CI) of 0.450, retention index (RI) of 0.308 and a total length of ...

The newly proposed phylogenetic tree suggests the Dragon Man is most closely related to this jaw, called the Xiahe mandible. "They probably belong to the same species," Ni says.

Abstract: We present kleuren, a novel assembly-free method to reconstruct phylogenetic trees using the Colored de Bruijn Graph. kleuren works by constructing the Colored de Bruijn Graph and then ...

A tree of life provides a graphic depiction of relationships between species, similar to a genealogical family tree. The creation of an up-to-date tree for flowering plants will hopefully aid us ...

A new, time-calibrated phylogenetic tree for angiosperms based on 353 nuclear genes. Baker et al., Nature 2024 ...