Haeckel took up Darwin's theory of evolution in his 1866 book, 'General morphology of organisms', and drew the first phylogenetic 'family tree of organisms', or tree of life. "Phylogeny is the ...

Tiny molecules called microRNAs are tearing apart traditional ideas about the animal family tree. ... This pattern of inheritance leaves an easy-to-follow evolutionary trail for phylogenetic sleuths.

On the origin of nematodes: Phylogenetic tree of world's most numerous group of animals. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 3, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2009 / 10 / 091029161526.htm ...

Proteins degrade over time, making their history hard to study. But new research has uncovered ancient proteins in the enamel ...

By updating the family tree for birds, the scientists show evolutionary patterns that formed following the cataclysmic mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.

Dinosaur Phylogenetic Tree Shake-Up. An analysis of 74 dinosaur species leads a group of researchers to reorganize the extinct animals’ evolutionary history.

Creating a family tree that dates back more than 400 million years and details the evolution of the most diverse group of animals on the planet is no easy feat, but one ambitious group of ...

Scientists reconstructed 500 million years of evolutionary history to reveal which came first: colorful signals or the color ...

The same principle is at play when it comes to evolutionary trees, a study in the journal Communications Biology suggests. Researchers say the method by which animals are sorted into evolutionary ...

Reading Perspectives in Animal Phylogeny and Evolution is like visiting a Michelin-starred restaurant where you are served an appetizer of a plate of chips, followed by a refined main course that ...

Birds are the most diverse land vertebrate on the planet, and now scientists have constructed a complete evolutionary tree of the 11,000 or so known species. This data came from hundreds of studies ...

From octopuses to snails, the complicated molluscan family tree has now been mapped in unprecedented detail, researchers report. This includes sequences for 13 new complete genomes from across the ...