For over a century, scientists have puzzled over a fundamental mystery in our evolutionary history: how did mammals go from ...

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, as well as Rocky Vista University (U.S.), show that ...

Saving coral reefs starts with knowing their species, but corals often fool us by changing looks or hiding true diversity.

For the first time, scientists sequenced the genomes of 20 individual lions, including extinct cave lions, revealing insights into their family tree. An African lion, moving through tall grasses ...

Over the past fifteen years, since the first remains of the Denisovans were discovered in the Denisova Cave in Siberia, one ...

The freezer in the laboratory of Professor of Mycorrhizal Studies Leho Tedersoo contains DNA samples of tens of thousands of ...

Phylogenetic trees made easy : a how-to manual for molecular biologists by Hall, Barry G., 1942-Publication date 2001 Topics Phylogeny -- Data processing, Phylogeny, Phylogenèse -- Informatique, ...

Learn more about archosauromorphs, the early relatives of dinosaurs, that survived inhospitable terrain during the Triassic ...

Protists (eukaryotes, excluding animals, land plants, and fungi) comprise the bulk of the eukaryotic phylogenetic tree, making their ...

Saitou N and Nei M (1987) The Neighbor-Joining method: a new method for reconstructing phylogenetic tree. Mol Biol Evol 4:406-425. Simon C, Frati F, Beckenbach A, Crespi B, Liu H and Flook P (1994) ...

A new study rebuilds the coelacanth family tree with refined data, showing these ancient fishes experienced bursts of change ...