The Cornell Lab of Ornithology today announced the release of a new online tool for studying biodiversity and the ...

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 ...

A professor discusses why the evolutionary Tree of Life approach to biodiversity education is best, to what extent the traditional taxonomy is still used and how to teach TOL using an active learning ...

Six American Museum of Natural History biologists, including Darrel Frost, and 13 colleagues have completed the largest analysis ever of the evolutionary relationships among all living amphibians, a ...

Plant and fungus systematics and taxonomy constitute foundational disciplines that underpin our understanding of biodiversity. Historically grounded in morphological and anatomical studies, these ...

Getting to know members of the Tephritid family can be quite a colourful experience. Tephritidae is the family name of fruit flies, one of the most damaging insect pests of horticultural products ...

The story of primates is a tale of incredible variety and ancient roots, told through the lens of science, DNA, and time itself. These creatures, ranging from massive gorillas to tiny mouse lemurs, ...

Scientists describe and name a new genus of tree hole breeding frogs from India, according to a study published January 20, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by S. D. Biju from the University ...