Few plants can be considered as quintessentially Southern as the magnolia. Their big, waxy, glossy leaves juxtaposed with heady, fragrant flowers are familiar sights to Southerners. They bloom in a ...

The combined efforts of thousands of scientists worldwide have produced the most complete "tree of life" yet, showing the evolutionary heritage of 2.3 million species from amoebas to aardvarks -- and ...

OneZoom is a one-stop site for exploring all life on Earth, its evolutionary history, and how much of it is threatened with extinction. The OneZoom explorer—available at onezoom.org—maps the ...

This remarkable image greeted me when I opened my Twitter feed yesterday morning: spacer Researchers gathered nearly 7,000 evolutionary trees from 3,000 studies and fed them into a database. They then ...