The Chicago Archaeopteryx provides rare 3D insights into skull evolution, soft tissue structure, and the first evidence of ...

A 183-million-year-old plesiosaur fossil unveils rare skin details, reshaping our understanding of ancient marine life.

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 ...

That picture (below) comes in the form of a “timetree”—a phylogenetic tree that not only shows how species are related, but also when each split occurred in evolutionary history. The idea is ...

We know this because of a biological tool called the tree of life. This "tree" takes ... actually occur," said Ian Barnes, a molecular evolutionary biologist at the Natural History Museum in ...

The new family tree is breaking new ground in the long journey to unravel the mysteries of bird evolution. According to this updated bird family tree, a group containing flamingos and grebes ...

Just as bird watchers may use binoculars to add to their species lists, scientists interested in bird evolution may use computational tools to clarify avian lineages. Indeed, such tools have ...

The family tree is detailed in a study published December 4 in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution and offers insight into the role that the environment has historically played on crocodile ...

Figure 3: Evolutionary family tree (“phylogeny”) showing relationships of living and extinct human species: chimps are our closest living relatives, but there were other species that were much closer ...

Who knew that horses and rhinos were on the same branch of the evolutionary tree? Actually ... Eocene Fossils Suggest That the Mammalian Order Perissodactyla Originated in India" include Luke ...