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. Since the time of the ancient Egyptians, people 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 ...

Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have unearthed a universal thermal performance curve (UTPC) that seemingly applies to ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists at Trinity College Dublin have identified a "universal thermal performance curve" ...

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 studies ...

Alternative splicing exhibits lineage-specific variability, with mammals and birds reaching the highest levels despite conserved intron-rich architectures, while unicellular eukaryotes and prokaryotes ...

In his debut book, the evolutionary biologist decodes the most exciting turning points in the effort to map what links all ...

In a world where evolutionary biology often gets boiled down to simplistic hierarchies of "primitive" and "advanced" species, a new book by University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) biologist ...

Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have unearthed a "universal thermal performance curve" (UTPC) that seemingly applies to all species and ...

Skeleton season may be just around the corner, but the skeleton age dawned with the early Cambrian Period, about 538 million ...