A study has found evidence that the evolution of tree roots over 300 million years ago triggered mass extinction events through the same chemical processes created by pollution in modern oceans and ...

In biology, phylogenetic trees represent the evolutionary history and diversification of species - the "family tree" of Life. Phylogenetic trees not only describe the evolution of a group of organisms ...

Benedict King receives funding from the Australian Research Council. John Long receives funding from The Australian Research Council Mike Lee receives funding from the Australian Research Council ...

An analysis of more than half a million trees reveals that many species begin to taper off seed production once they hit a certain size. A series of rodent experiments showed that even with abundant ...

Birds are the only dinosaur lineage that survived until today. About 66 million years ago at the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary, a mass extinction event destroyed all non-avian dinosaurs, ...

An international team of researchers have found a new way to interpret the evolution of bacteria. The findings, published in the journal Science today, demonstrate how integrating vertical descent and ...

The placoderms were a diverse group of ancient armoured fishes and it’s widely believed that they are ancestral to virtually all vertebrates alive today, including humans. Placoderms dominated aquatic ...

After having been relegated to the backrooms of dusty museums, surrounded by a cadre of venerable scientists and even older fossils, evolutionary systematics is now enjoying a renaissance that began ...

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 ...