Properly deciphering the branching pathways of evolution could unlock the history of every component of natural biology.

Four billion years ago, Earth was violent, hot, and unstable. Yet new research suggests that by then, life had already ...

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 studies ...

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 ...

Most of us can imagine a tree of life; some can even sketch one out. Branches coming off branches coming off branches, each describing a turn in evolutionary history. Over here are the molluscs. Over ...