This approach was developed by Carl Linnaeus in the 1730s, and it works by grouping animals ... evolutionary history and find shared ancestors. Under this system, organisms are grouped into "clades," ...

We learned at school that there are five different classes of animals. These are mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians. However, this knowledge, long enshrined in textbooks, does not seem to ...

Fossils are providing more and more clues about how dinosaurs attracted one another and reproduced, which contributed to ...

This study provides yet another animal model for scar-free ... natural history traits across the tree of life. Combining trait data with phylogeny we can begin to elucidate the origins of ...

Chinese scientists have unearthed the oldest short-tailed bird fossil, dating back about 150 million years, in east China's ...

Cancer phylogenetic trees describe the evolutionary relationship between ... This Perspective introduces the African Animal Breeding Network as a platform to develop infrastructure for innovative ...

FUZHOU, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have unearthed the oldest short-tailed bird fossil, dating back about 150 ...

FUZHOU, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have unearthed the oldest short-tailed bird fossil, dating back about 150 million years, in east China's Fujian Province. This suggests that birds might ...

The truffles — a type of fungi found across the globe and revered as rare culinary delicacies — have since been studied ...

Main tree: Ancestral range reconstruction with use of DEC+J model based on the phylogeny derived from BEAST2. Pie charts at the nodes indicate relative likelihood of ancestral ranges of most recent ...