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 ...

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

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, ...

A new study unveils the most comprehensive understanding of the evolutionary history of flowering plants to date. The research analyzed 1.8 billion letters of genetic code from more than 9,500 species ...

The evolutionary history of the mock viper, a mildly venomous, widely distributed Asian snake that mimics highly venomous vipers for self-defense, has been solved. The mock viper represents a ...