Researchers have combined decades of scientific data, tracing how all birds are related. This provides an evolutionary map ...

It’s commonly recognized that birds rank among the closest direct descendants of dinosaurs, but many people wonder if they ...

By combining data on all known bird species, this tree is the most impressive snapshot yet of one of Earth’s most ...

Professor Emily Jane McTavish and colleagues at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have mapped the evolution of every known bird ...

“Many dozens of bird phylogenies (studies of evolutionary histories using genetics) get published every year, yet their findings—with implications for everything from taxonomy to our ...