Jawbone fragments and teeth from a previously unknown species hint that the evolution of modern apes occurred in what's now ...

My colleague and I have published a new study of cactus flowers which may help explain the conundrum. For more than a century ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

The tree of life is a massive framework that maps every living organism, showing how species evolved and branched over ...

Birds are the only dinosaur lineage that survived until today. About 66 million years ago at the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary, a mass extinction event destroyed all non-avian dinosaurs, ...

"Published with the assistance of the University of Washington"--T.p. verso. Brackets and tables, circles and maps, 1554-1872 -- Early botanical networks and trees, 1766-1815 -- The first evolutionary ...

New research shows the “upside-down trees” originated in Madagascar and then caught a ride on ocean currents to reach mainland Africa and Australia. By Rachel Nuwer Baobabs are one of the most ...

New research headed by scientists at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) has demonstrated how the three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary ...

An international team of experts has resolved long-standing questions about the evolutionary history of mollusks, one of the most diverse zoological groups on the planet. The study, published in ...