When we think of the fish that inhabit the deep blue sea today, it’s easy to forget that they haven’t always been there. The ...

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 studies ...

The tree of life is a massive framework that maps every living organism, showing how species evolved and branched over ...

Why do some species live for only weeks while others survive for centuries? Researchers at the Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) in Jena have developed AEGIS, a freely ...

The transition from water to land is a question that still intrigues scientists. Those ancient organisms would have needed to ...

The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, according to a new study. It is the first time researchers use data from ...

My colleague and I have published a new study of cactus flowers which may help explain the conundrum. For more than a century, scientists have seen flowers that are specialised to a particular ...

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 ...

Thanks to Wondrium for sponsoring today's video! One of the ways we learn about the evolutionary tree of life is the presence ...

Daniel Brady Mills receives funding from the German Research Foundation. Jason Wright works for Penn State University, where his research in the search for life in the universe is supported by ...

Fri, May 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM UTC Those many millions of years have given birds time to evolve into some 11,000 species, and keeping track of all those species—not to mention their evolutionary history ...