By combining data on all known bird species, this tree is the most impressive snapshot yet of one of Earth’s most ...

In new research published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, we identify Australia’s earliest known species of ...

For the first time, scientists have created a comprehensive evolutionary tree of all known bird species, synthesizing data ...

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.

Newly discovered evidence of Australia's earliest species of tree frog challenges what we know about when Australian and South American frogs parted ways on the evolutionary tree. Previously ...

Newly discovered evidence of Australia's earliest species of tree frog challenges what we know about when Australian and South American frogs parted ways on the evolutionary tree. Previously ...

Most of us can imagine a tree of life; some can even sketch one out. Branches coming off branches coming off branches, each describing a turn in evolutionary history. Over here are the molluscs.

the point on the evolutionary tree where the ancestors of amphibians and amniotes separated (also known as the 'tetrapod crown-group node'), lay in the earliest Carboniferous around 355 million ...