The standard dinosaur family tree may soon be just a relic. After examining more than 400 anatomical traits, scientists have proposed a radical reshuffling of the major dinosaur groups.

The family history of SARS-CoV-2 is not what virologists expected — and it sheds light on the coronavirus that launched a pandemic. Check out our illustration of the virus's family tree.

To build this family tree, or genealogy, researchers sifted through thousands of genome sequences collected from both modern and ancient humans, as well as ancient human relatives, according to a ...

What This Unprecedented 13-Million-Person Family Tree Reveals. For starters, the new tree calls into question a prevailing theory for why people stopped marrying close relatives.

For example, they saw a drop of young men during the Civil War and World Wars I and II, ... Largest Human Family Tree Identifies Nearly 27 Million Ancestors. March 22, 2022.

In 2021, after 19 years of probing, she struck Black family tree gold: an ancestral connection to the legendary abolitionist Harriet Tubman. Jackson learned that her great-great-grandmother was ...

New major branch in the family tree of snakes. ... Until now, this has exactly been the case with elapoid snakes—they are a textbook example of 'ancient, rapid radiation' and as such, ...