Explore an interactive avian tree of life that reveals how 11,000 bird species are connected through millions of years of ...

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology today announced the release of a new online tool for studying biodiversity and the evolutionary relationships among birds: the illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny ...

Biologists have long drawn the animal family tree with a hazy base, unsure which creature first split from the common ancestor that gave rise to everything from jellyfish to humans. Now, a new genomic ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists have discovered which animal was the first to branch off from our collective common ancestor. For years, debate had raged over whether the ...