If you look different to your close relatives, you may have felt separate from your family. As a child, during particularly stormy fall outs you might have even hoped it was a sign that you were ...

Molecular evolutionary trees show that elephant shrews are more closely related to elephants, than they are to shrews. Credit: Danny Ye New research led by scientists at the Milner Centre for ...

They may look like they’ve had one too many espressos, but a group of small, wide-eyed primates from the Philippines are our distant cousins. Scientists have found that the tarsier - a small Yoda-like ...

Tree thinking is a pedagogical approach that emphasises the interpretation and construction of phylogenetic trees to elucidate evolutionary relationships. In the context of evolutionary biology ...

Birds are the most diverse land vertebrate on the planet, and now scientists have constructed a complete evolutionary tree of the 11,000 or so known species. This data came from hundreds of studies ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Since first appearing during the age of dinosaurs, snakes have authored an evolutionary success story - slithering into almost every habitat on Earth, from oceans to tree tops.

Revolutionary fossil evidence from Ethiopia is challenging decades of scientific consensus about human origins. New discoveries suggest that the famous Lucy fossil, long considered a direct ancestor ...

It seems that the evolutionary tree of life looks more like a giant swirling lollipop. Scientists have assembled the largest and most accurate timeline of life on Earth containing more than 50,000 ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...