Prototaxites fossils continue to divide scientists. These 400-million-year-old structures may belong to a completely extinct ...

“Evolution isn't just a story about where ... to experience some of the evolutionary wonders contained in the tree of life." The other tool that came out of their research is a puzzle-based ...

Thus, understanding the evolutionary history of living species amounts to understanding where on the tree of life these species' distinctive traits arose. Moreover, phylogenetic trees serve as ...

From the genius and torment of Charles Darwin to the scientific revolution that spawned the tree of life, from the power of sex to drive evolutionary change to the importance of mass extinctions ...

Indeed, the most basic postulate of evolutionary theory is that the same general phenomenon of descent from common ancestry applies to both the most diverse branches of the tree of life and the ...

New study shows how bird traits like gene makeup and clutch size shape evolution. This may help scientists understand ...

Study from University of Leicester describes a new species of fossil that is 444 million years-old with soft insides ...

They are each constrained to a single branch on the tree of life. However, as the evolutionary biologist and paleontologist Geerat Vermeij argued, there are other ways to explain why these ...

the great and complex battle of life...” – unlike his predecessors ... is easily and massively documented in the DNA record of evolution. “Variations neither useful nor injurious ...

The study, published in Science, reconstructs the family tree of mollusks ... big questions to understand how life adapts and diversifies over time." Beyond evolutionary knowledge, the findings ...