A large international team has genetically mapped glasswing butterflies found across Central and South America, rewriting the ...

An international team has remapped the evolutionary relationships of butterflies found across South and Central America to help monitor and support biodiversity.

It's hard to tell when—and why—our ancestors got down from trees and started walking on two legs. Many early hominins capable ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

Learn why our ancient ancestors maintained their climbing abilities once they developed their walking ones, and discover how their bipedalism evolved (possibly in the trees).

Mirasaura grauvogeli had a featherlike crest and a tail like a monkey. “It's been a long time since I've been so blown away ...

A glimmer of hope has emerged for Britain's beloved ash trees. According to a new study published in Science, some wild ash ...

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 ...

Tree thinking is a pedagogical approach that emphasises the interpretation and construction of phylogenetic trees to elucidate evolutionary relationships. In the context of evolutionary biology ...

But until now, scientists lacked a complete evolutionary timeline that includes them all. The most recent and detailed phylogenomic tree assembled to date included 239 primate species.

Evolutionary history of Australian tree frogs Around 55 million years ago, Australia, Antarctica and South America were linked together as the last remnants of the southern supercontinent Gondwana.