The story of primates is a tale of incredible variety and ancient roots, told through the lens of science, DNA, and time itself. These creatures, ranging from massive gorillas to tiny mouse lemurs, ...

An international collaboration between four scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published new research in ...

That picture (below) comes in the form of a “timetree”—a phylogenetic tree that not only shows how species are related, but also when each split occurred in evolutionary history. The idea is ...

The Jurassic fossil Juracanthocephalus reveals a key evolutionary link between rotifers and parasitic acanthocephalans, resolving debates about their origins and anatomy. A research team from the Nanj ...

Historically classified as a distinct animal ... and molecular phylogenetic analyses. The discovery of Juracanthocephalus provides a crucial reference for understanding the evolutionary ...

the billions of years that have passed since the fusion of an Archaea and a Bacteria have resulted in a lack of evolutionary intermediates in the phylogenetic tree until the emergence of the ...

Could aquatic mammals, such as whales, orcas, and bottlenose dolphins, ever evolve to live on land again? It seems the ...

Have you ever looked into the mirror and wondered just how deeply your roots stretch back in the tree of life? It might ...