Although most biologists would argue that viruses are not alive, some argue that viruses should be included in the tree of life. All organisms, they contend, should be divided into ribosome ...

Unlike the physical and chemical sciences, life science is not always ... How far do we go to define the tree of life — does it start only from the primordial cell or does it go further back?

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

This circular family tree of Earth's lifeforms is considered a first draft of the 3.5-billion-year history of how life evolved and diverged. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible ...

The Darwin Tree of Life project has an ambitious target of sequencing the DNA barcodes and full genomes of all 66,000+ described UK species. Our work is the UK’s contribution to the Earth Biogenome ...

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

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

Deep Tree: Students explore an interactive tree of life and trace the shared ancestry ... a lesson plan model for guided inquiry in science classrooms. If you were to categorize these organisms ...

I upload these barcodes and their specimen records to the Barcode of Life Database (BOLD), so that researchers across the world can benefit. My pre-DToL background is in Biomedical Science and Novel ...

Located on the blustery Pacific coastline of Washington state, the Tree of Life earned its name from how it has survived in a seemingly unsurvivable environment – and does so with an ...