This data is now part of the Open Tree of Life (OpenTree) project—a collaboration between evolutionary biologists ... the incredible and inter-related animal diversity that spans the globe.

In new research published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, we identify Australia’s earliest known species of ...

A research team has created a comprehensive evolutionary tree of all bird species, integrating data from hundreds of studies ...

The footprints of a reptile-like creature appear to have been laid down around 356 million years ago, pushing back the ...

New discoveries of fossil clawed footprints from Australia, published in Nature, push the origin of reptiles back in time by ...

Life depends on genes being switched on and off at exactly the right time. Even the simplest living organisms do this, but ...

It probably appeared at the very dawn of animal evolution ... comb jellies are older than sponges in the tree of life is a longstanding debate in evolutionary biology circles, but the study ...