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

Life depends on genes being switched on and off at exactly the right time. Even the simplest living organisms do this, but usually over short distances across the DNA sequence, with the on/off switch ...

Researchers have combined decades of scientific data, tracing how all birds are related. This provides an evolutionary map ...

A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego is making it easier for researchers from a broad range of ...

A complete Mixodectes pungens skeleton reveals it was a leaf-eating, tree-dwelling mammal closely related to primates and ...

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

A phylogeny is a hypothetical reconstruction ... Phylogenies are often represented graphically in the form of a 'tree' and enable scientists to find new relationships between organisms.

Cretaceous climate crisis with extreme heat and ocean anoxia led to the extinction of powerful marine predators.

New analysis of a 100-million-year-old fossil embedded in a rocky cove in Australia suggests echidnas may have evolved from ...