In the dim waters off the Japanese coast, scientists have stumbled upon something that shouldn’t exist. Or at least not by ...

T-REX was created in response to requests to be able to easily link phylogenetic and phenotypic information together and yield insights from this. This package consists of a GUI-enabled phylogenetic ...

Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about the evolutionary history of kissing, how moss spores ...

Earlier this year, as I began to report on bird flu, an outbreak was raging across farms in Ohio and Indiana. Over 18 million hens — 5% of America’s egg-laying chickens — were ultimately culled in a ...

Insect-driven tree mortality is rising across Europe, finds an international study led by the Czech University of Life Sciences with participation of WSL. Conifers are hit harder, broadleaf damage ...

An unusual ally is helping scientists and homeowners fight an invasive pest in Ohio, according to the Columbus Dispatch. Ironically, this ally comes in the form of an invader. The tree of heaven ...

PHOTO PROVIDED Shown is a pin oak tree in this photo by Ritch Heintzelman Our local forests have far fewer oak trees than were present in the 1800s and yet, of all our native trees, the oak tree is ...

Welcome to our tree column, “Ask your local arborist.” Each month, arborists from the Davey Tree Expert Company in Menlo Park discuss a tree-related topic from general care and planting tips to how ...

Abstract: Phylogenetic placement is the computational task that places a query taxon into a reference phylogeny by analyzing biomolecular sequences or other evolutionary characters. A chief advantage ...