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 ...

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

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

The new family tree is breaking new ground in the long journey to unravel the mysteries of bird evolution. According to this updated bird family tree, a group containing flamingos and grebes ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. New research ...