Ant genomes reveal how social insects evolved cooperation, preserved caste genes, and rewired chromosomes over 100 million ...

Some animals on Earth haven’t changed for millions of years, surviving extinctions, climate shifts, and even asteroid impacts. These evolutionary holdouts, often called “living fossils,” are ...

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

What an evolutionary tree does not capture is the on-again/off-again nature of intra-species dynamics, the many near-misses where one breeding group diverges into two, and then blends again back to ...

An evolutionary trait almost always occurs for a reason; this raises the question of why animals would gain the ability to see distinctions in bright color long before they would need to.

We know this because of a biological tool called the tree of life. This "tree" takes the form of a diagram that maps the relationships between plants, animals and other organisms.

Insects share the kingdom Animalia with all animals on earth. However, the impression that insects are so very different from us is well founded. Insects diverged from mammals and other animals long ...

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 ...

Researchers have created the most detailed evolutionary tree of birds to date. It proposes an entirely new group of birds that connects the smallest flying birds to the largest, as well as showing in ...

Since first appearing during the age of dinosaurs, snakes have authored an evolutionary success story - slithering into almost every habitat on Earth, from oceans to tree tops. Scientists ...

Exceptionally well-preserved fossils from the Cambrian period have helped fill a gap in our understanding of the origin and evolution of major animal groups alive today. A new analysis of fossils ...