Properly deciphering the branching pathways of evolution could unlock the history of every component of natural biology.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I’ve been fascinated by this picture since I first saw it over the weekend. It’s a hint of how we may be visualizing life in years to come. As Darwin was trying to figure out how new species could ...

The world’s largest butterfly tree of life is helping researchers determine where the winged insects originated when they first appeared on Earth about 100 million years ago. During the age of the ...

We conduct fundamental research into the patterns and processes that have generated the astonishing diversity of life on Earth. From molecules to ecosystems, research topics span the emergence of the ...

When we look at the world around us, we see a wonderous variety of living things—with fins, fronds or feet, living in the deepest ocean or the driest deserts, eating seeds or salmon or sunlight. The ...