Protein Shapes Can Help Untangle Life's Ancient History Jan. 15, 2025 — The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of ...

"I would say that any modern biologist would, or should, say that birds are reptiles," Martin Stervander, an evolutionary ...

A recently analyzed near-complete fossil skull found in Antarctica has revealed Vegavis iaai to be the oldest known modern bird, according to a study published in Nature.

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

Scientists say a new, never-before seen species of human ancestor roamed the Earth as recently as one million years ago.

Researchers warn that if this trend continues, entire species could disappear, leading to the collapse of ecosystems. A new ...

Evolutionary biology is a subdiscipline of the biological sciences concerned with the origin of life and the diversification and adaptation of life forms over time.

This study provides a valuable new resource to investigate the molecular basis of the particular features characterizing the pipefish embryo. The authors found both unique and shared gene expression ...

“People working in different time slices had basically given different names to the same kind of microfossils, obscuring their long evolutionary ... the eukaryotic Tree of Life (eTOL).

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This evidence comes from a nearly complete, 69-million-year-old skull of an extinct bird, named Vegavis iaai. The fossil is ...

The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...