We used a database for this, called KEGG, that helps scientists figure out organisms' metabolic pathways (how they sustain life). Next, we used these families to infer phylogenetic trees (or ...

Evolution is the way groups of life-forms change over time to better fit the places ... For example, a plant in the Mojave ...

The 3.2-million-year-old fossil, discovered 50 years ago, is considered to be one of the most significant early hominin ...

The clearest picture yet of our “last universal common ancestor” suggests it was a relatively complex organism living 4.2 ...

According to Darwin, life evolved from simple to complex. Phylogenetic trees were built on this idea. However, the root of the tree of life remained unknown for a long time. Schrödinger lectured on ...

DNA samples from one of the world’s largest and oldest plants — a quaking aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) in Utah called Pando — have helped researchers to determine its age and revealed ...

The world’s largest tree has been rigorously dated for the first time, confirming it is at least 16,000 years old. Named Pando, the tree is a quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) with around ...

A study published today (October 31) in PeerJ Life and Environment has transformed our understanding ... This method enabled the time calibration of the phylogenetic tree, resulting in a more accurate ...

A tree in the Scottish Highlands known as the Skipinnish Oak has been named UK Tree of the Year. Native woodland experts had no idea the tree existed until a gathering in 2009. It is thought to be ...

A centuries-old tree in the Scottish Highlands named after a popular ceilidh band has won this year's UK Tree of the Year. The Skipinnish Oak, which the Woodland Trust believes is more than 400 ...