A hidden cave lake in Mexico has given scientists a rare opportunity to watch evolution reshape vision, behavior, and ...

With 204 species in 36 genuses, the Milkvetch Family ranks second most diverse wildflower group in Colorado. Before exploring ...

Crabs' signature sideways scuttle, a mystery for ages, has been traced to a single evolutionary event 200 million years ago. This unique movement, observed in 35 out of 50 studied species, provided a ...

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

Crabs’ famous sideways walk may trace back to a single evolutionary moment 200 million years ago. Researchers found that most ...

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 ...

Researchers have provided new insights into the evolutionary origin of sideways walking in crabs. Their study, published today as a Reviewed Preprint in eLife, presents the largest comparative dataset ...

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 ...

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 ...