Thanks to a team of scientists, there's a new "tree of life" showing the ancestry of millions of different species dating back ... "Synthesis of phylogeny and taxonomy into a comprehensive tree ...

For the first time, scientists have created a comprehensive evolutionary tree of all known bird species, synthesizing data ...

At the most basic level, human evolution is articulated through classifications of, and evolutionary relationships among, hominin species. This article presents a basic taxonomy and phylogeny of ...

“As a result, all taxa, and taxonomy, are abstract to some degree. As our understanding of the world changes, we have to adjust our ideas to better fit the facts.” The northern bald ibis is an ...

This data is now part of the Open Tree of Life (OpenTree) project—a collaboration between evolutionary biologists and ...

Both of these charts are derived from my personal database of mammal names. Because taxonomy is never fully settled and these are counts of species I currently consider valid, the exact counts may ...

A species is ... now known as Linnaean taxonomy. This was the idea that every organism could be classified into increasingly specific groups, culminating in its species. All species also belong ...

The chart shows the relative ups and downs in species counts, telling scientists about the origin, diversification, and extinction of ancient life. With this new study, the chart of life now ...

The initiative boasts the discovery of 11 new marine species from all over the globe ... refocusing attention on taxonomy's importance," says Dr. Torben Riehl, who is one of the researchers ...