A research team has created a comprehensive evolutionary tree of all bird species, integrating data from hundreds of studies ...

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

Eukaryogenesis occurred suddenly, driven by the growing length of genes and the limitations on producing longer proteins. An international team of four senior scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, ...

In 2010, Pamela and Alistair Thompson planted a young Wollemi Pine sapling at their home in Malvern, Worcestershire. The tree, once 18 inches tall, now towers over 13 feet. This spring, Pamela ...

A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego is making it easier for researchers from a broad range of ...

Scientists have found that a mere 30 species of trees in the Cerrado—the world's largest and most floristically diverse ...

What if the Giving Tree said "no" to the boy? Thousands of adults online are resonating with alternate endings to classic children’s books that may not have aged well in light of modern-day ...

Life depends on genes being switched on and off at exactly the right time. Even the simplest living organisms do this, but usually over short distances across the DNA sequence, with the on/off switch ...

Scientists have found that a mere 30 species of trees in the Cerrado -- the world's largest and most floristically diverse savanna -- account for nearly half of all its trees. The 'hyperdominance' by ...

Beryl knocked a tree onto Rayla Johnson's home. But she couldn't afford to get it removed, so the tree sat on her roof for nearly ten months until a neighbor helped her. They chopped up the tree ...

One of the men on trial for cutting down the famous Sycamore Gap tree has said he could not understand the huge outcry after it was felled, telling a court it was “just a tree”. Adam Carruthers said ...

LONDON (AP) — Two men who cut down the beloved Sycamore Gap tree did it for a laugh ... captured their excitement as the story took on a life of its own. They even appeared to boast about ...