Scientists announced the discovery of a new species of early tyrannosaur in a museum vault in Mongolia, an ancestor to ...

Each branch on the tree signifies the splitting of a common ... Over the course of millions of years, it splits into distinct evolutionary lineages known as clades. A clade encompasses an ancestor ...

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 ...

Losing trees restricted ... navigate flexible branches in the open canopy, characteristic of the Issa Valley savanna habitat. Rhianna C. Drummond-Clarke Scott Williams, an evolutionary ...

But then researchers started doing chromosome work and chemical studies and created a formalized method for building computerized evolutionary trees that we now call cladistics. My colleague ...

Ar. ramidus had these suspensory traits — which enabled them to swing from tree branches — before a significant evolutionary shift occurred with the lineages of Homo (humans) and ...

Evolution proceeds like a tree – an ancestral branch splits into two or more descendant branches, some of the descendants give rise to further branches, a few branches die off. Just as a tree has ...

Scientists in Darwin’s time and through most of the 20th century could only work out the branches of the evolutionary tree of life by looking at the structure and appearance of animals and plants.

A new study by University of Alberta scientists has helped to classify ~600 fungi that, previously, lacked a place among the fungi family tree. The study ... the need for broader study of fungal ...