The Darwin Tree of Life project has an ambitious target of sequencing the DNA barcodes and full genomes of all 66,000+ described UK species. Our work is the UK’s contribution to the Earth Biogenome ...

Lightning strikes may kill hundreds of millions of trees every year, but one tropical tree has evolved to benefit from the ...

You’d have thought scientists would know about all of the extremely large tree species out there by now given that they’re, y’know, frickin’ huge. But as the discovery of a brand new, absolutely ...

Shen’s team worked for several years to develop Deep Tree, “an open-ended space to explore the common ancestry of all species and understand how life continues to evolve.” Florian Block ...

I am also the Principal Investigator for the Museum’s part of DToL, which means I make sure all of the science runs smoothly, and that we keep in touch with the other project ... species. I upload ...

Now, expand your image to encompass all the butterflies ... organisms, to species, or to sets of species, as long as each tip makes up a separate branch on the tree of life. In fact, in certain ...

These diagrams don't just organize knowledge of biodiversity - they also show us that living species ... all living organisms are equally distant in time from the root of the tree of life and ...

Among these findings are fresh varieties of Angel Sharks, Spiny Rock Lobsters, and Green Sea Turtles, all of ... 866 new species, highlighting the vastness of undiscovered marine life.

All viewers of this document ... who appreciated that individual members of a species exhibited variability. “...the great and complex battle of life...” – unlike his predecessors who ...

the species have all been deemed new to science, according to Ocean Census, a global alliance to protect sea life, which this week released the first major update since its launch in 2023.