Researchers have extracted 2 million-year-old protein remains from ancient pre-human teeth to reveal biological sex and ...

Researchers analyzed fossils and DNA to get a big-picture view of sloth evolution and determine what drove their immense size ...

By Carolyn Cowan The island of New Guinea is famed for its eye-popping diversity of plants, animals and human cultures.

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 ...

They created a complete evolutionary tree of bird species by combining data on 9,239 species published in nearly 300 studies between 1990 and 2024 and additional curated data on another 1,000 species.

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 ...

Facing sea level rise and food insecurity, 17 families from the Carteret Islands have relocated to nearby Bougainville, bringing hundreds of specimens of trees and plants, representing dozens of ...

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

Here’s how it works. The iconic, "upside-down" baobab tree first emerged on the island of Madagascar, new research into its tangled evolutionary history reveals. It's still not clear ...

New research shows the “upside-down trees” originated in Madagascar ... baobabs’ nocturnal flowers for nectar. “One of the evolutionary innovations of baobabs was to exploit large, sugar ...

To find more similarities between other mobs and blocks, a fan has created a detailed evolutionary tree of life showing the relation between different mobs and even the relation between mobs and ...