OLD girl killed by a falling tree in a busy park yesterday was visiting the area from London with her family, it is ...

Trees are essential to life on Earth. They support ecosystems, store carbon, provide clean water, improve our health, and ...

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 ...

Imagine the tree of life. The tip of every branch represents one species, and if you follow any two branches back through time, you'll hit an intersection. If you keep going back in time, you'll ...

Wageningen University researchers modeled climate responses of over 32,000 tree species under global warming scenarios.

Birds are the most diverse land vertebrate on the planet, and now scientists have constructed a complete evolutionary tree of the 11,000 or so known species. This data came from hundreds of ...

All species on Earth, both living and extinct, are related. We know this because of a biological tool called the tree of life. This "tree" takes the form of a diagram that maps the relationships ...

Polyploidy, or whole-genome duplication (WGD), is a major mechanism of genome evolution across the tree of life and is ...

A team co-led by a Purdue University researcher has found that groups of fungi influence global tree species in distinct ways ...

Scientists Mapped the Evolution of 11,000 Bird Species to Build the Avian Tree of Life By combining data on all known bird species, this tree is the most impressive snapshot yet of one of Earth ...

By combining data on all known bird species, this tree is the most impressive snapshot yet of one of Earth’s most awe-inspiring classes of animal. Scientists Mapped the Evolution of 11,000 Bird ...