The "grotesque" baobab tree has long been known as the "tree of life" for its ability to create and maintain its own ecosystem in arid regions.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Calling something the “tree of life” may conjure up a lush arboreal species with mouth-watering fruit.. Yet on the African continent, this moniker is reserved for the baobab tree. Upon first ...

In South America, which is home to the Amazon Rainforest, 3,356 out of the 13,668 assessed tree species are at risk of extinction due to deforestation for crop farming and livestock ranching.

Taxonomy, or the naming of species, is surprisingly complicated – and contentious. It doesn't take much scientific expertise to divide lions from tigers, or pigeons from flamingos, but details ...

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 ...