By combining data on all known bird species, this tree is the most impressive snapshot yet of one of Earth’s most ...

A research team has created a comprehensive evolutionary tree of all bird species, integrating data from hundreds of studies ...

Why it's awesome: The hoatzin is often regarded as one of the world's strangest birds. Hatchlings are born with clawed wings ...

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

On the established tree of animal evolution, comb jellies branch off after the cnidarians, other jelly-filled creatures like sea anemones and jellyfish. Like vertebrates, cnidarians exhibit bilateral ...

Professor Emily Jane McTavish and colleagues at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have mapped the evolution of every known bird ...

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

Imagine a creature so strange, so utterly unlike anything alive today, that even the world’s top scientists had no idea which ...