A large international team has genetically mapped glasswing butterflies found across Central and South America, rewriting the ...

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 ...

An international team has remapped the evolutionary relationships of butterflies found across South and Central America to help monitor and support biodiversity.

Mirasaura teaches us that a feather is only one of the many wondrous things that reptiles evolved to grow out of their skin,” ...

We looked at evolutionary trees based on appearance or on molecules for 48 groups of animals and plants, including bats, dogs, monkeys, lizards and pine trees.

The story of evolution tells us how, starting from simple beginnings, each species was built – when each of the components that make a living creature was added to its blueprint. If we climb the ...

They are a major factor in evolution.” However, by using an evolutionary model that allows for budding instead of splitting, the scientists got a picture that much more closely matched the fossil ...

Human testicles are much smaller, in proportion, to some of our primate cousins. Evolution can tell us why. But the size of other body parts is a little bit more of a mystery.

The updated bird family tree delineating 93 million years of evolutionary relationships between 363 bird species. CREDIT: Jon Fjeldså (drawings) and Josefin Stiller.