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.

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The Chicago Archaeopteryx provides rare 3D insights into skull evolution, soft tissue structure, and the first evidence of ...

The more species of Homo there were, the higher the rate of speciation. So when those niches got filled, something drove even more species to emerge. This is almost unparalleled in evolutionary ...

A cutting-edge technique for analyzing fossil tooth enamel is revealing remarkable new information about 2 million-year-old ...

Large-scale comparison of gene families across 1154 Saccharomycotina genomes revealed that gene gains and losses drive yeast ...

Yeast evolution offers insights into climate change adaptation, highlighting the trade-offs and challenges species face as ...

From river-clogging plants to disease-carrying insects, the direct economic cost of invasive species worldwide has averaged ...

First detected in 2015, gravitational waves may not have had a direct hand in human evolution, but it certainly helped set ...

More than a decade after his 'Origin of Species', Darwin found courage to publish ideas he had once only hinted at. In 'The Descent of Man' he presented an unequivocal account of human evolution.

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 ...