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.

Birds are the most diverse land vertebrate on the planet, and now scientists have constructed a complete evolutionary tree of the 11,000 or so known species. This data came from hundreds of ...

Fossil discovery pushes the history of Australian tree frogs back 55 million years, reshaping our understanding of their ...

For the first time, scientists have created a comprehensive evolutionary tree of all known bird species, synthesizing data ...

In the Early Eocene epoch, 55 million years ago, Australia’s tree frogs were hopping across ... Unravelling the deep-time changes in the diversity and evolution of the ancestors of today ...

Scientists have now discovered the oldest ancestor for all the Australian tree frogs, with distant links to the tree frogs of South America.

Cold-adapted animals started to evolve 2.6 million years ago when the permanent ice at the poles became more prevalent. There followed a time when the continental ice sheets expanded and contracted ...

Technological advancements, stemming from the mind's evolution, have transformed the biosphere into a technosphere, leading to ecological challenges. While some minds remain complacent ...

Two men have been found guilty of cutting down the famous Sycamore Gap tree, in what a court heard was a "mindless" and "moronic" act. Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers were found to have driven ...

In 2015, a genetic study in the journal Nature suggested that the hoatzin is the last surviving member of a bird line that branched off the evolutionary tree in its own direction 64 million years ...