All species on Earth, both living and extinct, are related. We know this because of a biological tool called the tree of life. This "tree" takes the form of a diagram that maps the relationships ...

This challenges our understanding of the tree of life itself. Life on Earth is organized into three primary domains: Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukaryotes. Bacteria and Archaea are characterized by ...

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 ...

Located on the blustery Pacific coastline of Washington state, the Tree of Life earned its name from how it has survived in a seemingly unsurvivable environment – and does so with an ...