Have you ever looked into the mirror and wondered just how deeply your roots stretch back in the tree of life? It might ...

The story of primates is a tale of incredible variety and ancient roots, told through the lens of science, DNA, and time ...

Thus, understanding the evolutionary history of living species amounts to understanding where on the tree of life these species' distinctive traits arose. Moreover, phylogenetic trees serve as ...

From the genius and torment of Charles Darwin to the scientific revolution that spawned the tree of life, from the power of sex to drive evolutionary change to the importance of mass extinctions ...

Shrimp look an awful lot like bugs. The exoskeletons, jointed legs and compound eyes of both groups of living things give ...

“Evolution isn't just a story about where ... to experience some of the evolutionary wonders contained in the tree of life." The other tool that came out of their research is a puzzle-based ...

Imagine walking through a bustling aquarium, surrounded by the vibrant life of the sea. You pause in front of a tank filled ...

This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great ... and distant kin in a vast family tree of life. The implications are breathtaking; if we could travel ...

An international collaboration between four scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published new research in ...

Until now, it’s been very hard for scientists to establish a detailed timeline of the early evolution of bacteria.

But over the last several months, those uplifting photo captions have been slowly replaced with eulogies for the tree and reflections on its life.“I visited the Tree of Life today for the first ...