The tree of life, which depicts how life has evolved and diversified on the planet, is getting a lot more complicated. Researchers at UC Berkeley, who have discovered more than 1,000 new types 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 ...

OneZoom is a one-stop site for exploring all life on Earth, its evolutionary history, and how much of it is threatened with extinction. OneZoom is a one-stop site for exploring all life on Earth, its ...

The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life David Quammen Simon & Schuster (2018) In The Tangled Tree, celebrated science writer David Quammen tells perhaps the grandest tale in biology: how ...

From Quanta Magazine (find original story here). The tree of life just got another major branch. Researchers recently found a certain rare and mysterious microbe called a hemimastigote in a clump of ...

Why do you have five fingers? Why not ten, or twenty, or one? Why do so many animals have five fingers? Five seems to be the perfect number for most hands. Oddly, the first vertebrates to come onto ...

Jacqueline Nguyen receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Simon Ho receives funding from the Australian Research Council. The largest-ever study of bird genomes has produced a ...

University of Bath provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. If you look different to your close relatives, you may have felt separate from your family. As a child, during particularly ...