Imagine zooming out on a giant family tree that includes every bird you have ever seen. Ostriches sprint across open plains, hummingbirds hover at flowers, penguins slice through cold seas, and eagles ...

Professor Emily Jane McTavish and colleagues at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have mapped the evolution of every known bird species. They created a complete evolutionary tree of bird species by ...

ELEC copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Birds catch the public imagination like no other group of animals; in addition, birders are perhaps the largest non-professional ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Most phylogenies exist in academic papers and remain difficult to interpret. Cornell’s Birds of the World Phylogeny Explorer puts ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many beautiful exotic birds on white background, collection© New Africa/Shutterstock.com The post New Interactive Avian Tree of ...