Life depends on genes being switched on and off at exactly the right time. Even the simplest living organisms do this, but ...

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

A complete Mixodectes pungens skeleton reveals it was a leaf-eating, tree-dwelling mammal closely related to primates and ...

Cassowaries are a genus of large animals from Australia, New Guinea, and Indonesia. While they look like birds, cassowaries also are incredibly large and also flightless. The unique appearance and ...

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

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 ...

In the temperate forests of the Northern Hemisphere, a quiet but powerful story has been unfolding for nearly 60 million ...

Adelaide City Council has backflipped on a decision to apply netting to trees in a popular CBD street, preventing birds from roosting there, after footage emerged of the animals dropping dead in ...

This type of lemur, a member of the genus Propithecus ... a large zoo or to the island of Madagascar, where these animals call home. Sifakas use those powerful legs to leap quickly and go from tree to ...

Taxonomic diversity of MSH6 histone reader presence and absence. Tree is based on NCBI taxonomy, showing species for which unambiguous MSH6 orthologs and domain presence/absence could be called. Tree ...

The discovery was detailed in the article published on April 14 in Zootaxa, a renowned, peer-reviewed scientific journal of animal taxonomy in New Zealand. Research process and the Leptobrachium ...