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 ...

There’s a whole new branch on the evolutionary tree of life, made up entirely of predators who “nibble their prey to death”.. These are not the fearsome species we normally associate with ...

Each branch on the tree signifies the splitting of a common ancestor into two or more descendants — a process powered by natural selection. Take Eukarya, for example. This huge branch includes ...

In a surprise twist, the evolution of human bipedalism might have nothing to do with learning to walk on land. By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira Published Dec 14, 2022 4:55 PM EST ...

Evolution’s Roots. Until the advent of cheap and efficient gene sequencing technology in the 21st century, appearance was usually all evolutionary biologists had to go on. While Darwin (1859) showed ...

The evolutionary history of the mock viper has been solved by an international research team led by scientists from the University of Helsinki. This mildly venomous viper look-alike represents a ...

Meet the Smithsonian Scientist Untangling the Branches of Hawaii’s Evolutionary Tree. From fragile ferns to towering trees, NMNH botanist Warren Wagner has spent over 30 years researching plants ...

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 ...

The findings emphasize the need for broader study of fungal evolution, focusing particularly on how fungi inherit their biotechnological traits. The team also propose that the data could help support ...

A 300,000 year-old fossilized skull discovered in China is proving to be an evolutionary puzzle.The specimen dating back to the late middle Pleistocene doesn’t look like other skulls that have ...

The tree showed how a single ancestral population could branch into many species, each with its own evolutionary path. “ On the Origin of Species ,” published twenty-two years later, includes ...