A new Yale and Princeton study suggests dinosaurs originated between 250 and 240 million years ago, about 10 million years earlier than the oldest confirmed fossils. Researchers used advanced ...

Four separate studies released the same day have pushed back key evolutionary and planetary milestones. New analyses suggest dinosaurs originated 10 million years earlier than fossil evidence shows, a ...

Dinosaurs are among the most majestic and iconic animals to have ever walked on our planet. While they are now extinct, they ...

In a lowland forest in southeastern Madagascar, what was missing proved as telling as what was found. Researchers trapping ...

New findings suggest sideways walking in crabs is a rare but innovative trait originating from a common ancestor, and provide a framework for understanding how animal locomotion diversifies and ...

So far as we know, true symbolic language is unique to the human species. The question of how we alone came to ...

Taxonomic endemism and phylogenetic endemism are both important measures of biodiversity. The former describes the number of distinct species found nowhere else, whereas the latter shows the amount of ...

Most phylogenies exist in academic papers and remain difficult to interpret. Cornell’s Birds of the World Phylogeny Explorer puts those relationships into a visual, searchable tool. Users can explore ...

Known as the "Queen of Climbers," the genus Clematis boasts over 300 species widely distributed across the globe. From tropical rainforests to sub-arctic regions, these plants are celebrated by ...

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology today announced the release of a new online tool for studying biodiversity and the evolutionary relationships among birds: the illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny ...

A previously unknown jellyfish, Tripedalia maipoensi, was discovered in Mai Po, a new find that expands Hong Kong's marine ...