Researchers have described Odorrana chumu sp. nov., a miniature odorous frog from the Langbian Plateau in southern Vietnam, ...

Whenever anything is written about the Denisovans, the word "mysterious" is almost guaranteed to appear. That is because we just don't know a lot about this extinct human group that may have lived in ...

A dated molecular analysis of 49 Ethiopian trechine beetle species supports diversification linked to early volcanic uplift ...

Researchers have developed a highly resolved molecular phylogeny for 1,178 native angiosperm species in the Netherlands, ...

This valuable study substantially improves the phylogenetic framework for Kinetoplastea through greatly expanded sampling of free-living neobodonids; the phylogenomic analyses provide convincing ...

For decades, scientists have debated where bats first evolved, with Africa, Asia and North America among the proposed origins of the only mammals capable of powered flight. A study published in Nature ...

A 165-million-year-old fossil reveals a half-meter-long mammal relative adapted for hunting in water. Its skull and throat bones suggest a swallowing system with features important for drinking and ...

Here are the paragraphs leading up to the sentence, which concludes a recent paper (paywalled, unfortunately) at the journal Systematic Biology. From, “Common Ancestry, Contemporary Phylogenetics, and ...

Ornithologists with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have stitched together the most complete avian evolutionary tree ever, unveiling surprising relationships and offering bird lovers the illustrated ...

The tree of life is often likened to a map of the living world. Of course, a map is a human artifact: a necessary but imperfect guide to the richness of reality. As Max Telford points out in the ...

Cephalopods—a class encompassing octopuses, squid, cuttlefish and nautiluses—exhibit extraordinary morphological innovation, ecological diversity and complex behaviours. Molecular phylogenetic ...

Birds are extraordinary in their diversity, ecological breadth, and global distribution. This makes them a powerful system to study ecology and evolution, particularly as large-scale datasets on ...