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 ...

Human testicles are much smaller, in proportion, to some of our primate cousins. Evolution can tell us why. But the size of ...

A large international team has genetically mapped glasswing butterflies found across Central and South America, rewriting the ...

An international team has remapped the evolutionary relationships of butterflies found across South and Central America to help monitor and support biodiversity.

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The origins of life on Earth have long fascinated scientists, particularly the nature of the last universal common ancestor (LUCA). LUCA, the root of the evolutionary tree from which Bacteria and ...

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. Scientists Mapped the Evolution of 11,000 Bird ...

In Charles Darwin’s world-changing work On the Origin of Species, the naturalist make use of the millennia-old metaphor in which all life is represented by a tree.He writes that “the ...

This ancestor had two offspring; one that led to the evolution of all animal life, and another that is referred to as the sister to all animals.

In a new paper published April 24 in the journal Nature, an international team of 279 researchers, including three scientists from The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG), used genetic code from more ...