Millions of years before the first trees grew their canopies and the earliest insects buzzed, a strange organism sprouted ...

To help you explore this tree and understand the amazing mechanism ... provide a strong foundation for pursuing any topic in the life sciences, from astrobiology to zoology. As Russian biologist ...

Fossils known as Prototaxites, which once dominated the land, have puzzled scientists since Darwin’s days. New evidence ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...

Deep Tree: Students explore an interactive tree of life and trace the shared ancestry ... a lesson plan model for guided inquiry in science classrooms. If you were to categorize these organisms ...

Tree of Life,' a Sitka spruce in Olympic National Park, is nearing the end of its life on the Washington coast.

The Darwin Tree of Life project has an ambitious target of sequencing the DNA barcodes and full genomes of all 66,000+ described UK species. Our work is the UK’s contribution to the Earth Biogenome ...

Although most biologists would argue that viruses are not alive, some argue that viruses should be included in the tree of life. All organisms, they contend, should be divided into ribosome ...