Oak trees change their fine roots and "energize" soil microbes by supplying them with a cocktail of small organic compounds, ...

One study is of enamel proteins from extinct mammal fossils from the Turkana Basin in Kenya, and the other study is of enamel proteins from extinct mammals in the Haughton impact crater site located ...

It has genes for ribosomes, tRNAs, and mRNAs. These components are the scaffolding of life: the tools by which cells read ...

By combining data on all known bird species, this tree is the most impressive snapshot yet of one of Earth’s most awe-inspiring classes of animal.

The largest timed molecular phylogenetic tree of life, called a "timetree," to date includes just over 200 primate species, while the largest synthetic timetree, drawing from over 4,000 published ...

image: Phylogenetic trees of emojis available in 2015, 2019, and 2022 view more Credit: iScience/Mammola et al. The current emoji library doesn’t accurately represent the “tree of life” and ...

The new pathogen “tree of life” provides information about each of the more than 192 formally described species, including their evolutionary history and relationships within groups, as well ...

Ben Crair on the hoatzin, the bird that is seemingly defying the concept behind the tree of life; B10K, a research group that is trying to sequence the genome of every species of bird; and DNA ...

Smith said previous efforts to build a complete tree of life fell short due to a lack of both phylogenetic data and computer power. But over the last decade, computer power has increased substantially ...

SARS-CoV-2 is a beta-coronavirus that is thought to be originally bat-borne before jumping to humans to cause the COVID-19 pandemic.