Every crab you have ever watched skitter across a beach was performing a trick that dates to the early Jurassic. A research ...

Scientists from Princeton and Yale have corrected the timeline for dinosaur emergence, moving the date to 250 million years ...

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

Abstract: Multiple sequence alignment has been the traditional and well established approach of sequence analysis and comparison, though it is time and memory consuming. As the scale of sequencing ...

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 ...

Abstract: Today, the popularity of 3D videos is increasing significantly. This trend can be attributed to their immersive appeal and lifelike experience. In an era dominated by the widespread ...

Evolutionary relationships, or phylogeny, involves studying evolutionary paths or lineages of organisms and is often represented by a phylogenetic tree. A phylogenetic tree shows the points at which ...

Understanding how life began and evolved on Earth is a question that has fascinated humans for a long time, and modern scientists have made great advances when it comes to finding some answers. Now, ...

Traditional alignment-based methods meet serious challenges in genome sequence comparison and phylogeny reconstruction due to their high computational complexity. Here, we propose a new alignment-free ...

This event is closed to the public. Sleep is ubiquitous and necessary for virtually any organism with some form of a nervous system. Yet the dominant causes and functions of sleep–and even whether ...