Scientists have unveiled a new "tree of life," demonstrating just how the world's 2.3 million species of animals plants, fungi and microbes are connected. The project, involving 11 institutions ...

In a tree of life, the trunk generally represents the first life on Earth, and then it splits into boughs and branches for different kingdoms, like plants and animals.

Scientists have discovered a completely new branch on the tree of life. This “supergroup” contains an incredibly diverse range of predatory microbes that are extremely different genetically ...

All species on Earth, both living and extinct, are related. We know this because of a biological tool called the tree of life. This "tree" takes the form of a diagram that maps the relationships ...

The tree of life, first described as we know it by Charles Darwin in On the Origin of Species, is the name given to a diagram which shows the relationships between all organisms, living and extinct.

Scientists have released a new version of the tree of life, showing everything we know about how the living things of Earth are related to one another. With 2.3 million species and counting, it's ...

The first draft of a new "tree of life" contains every named species of flora and fauna known from over 3.5 billion years of life on Earth.

So how shall we ever see the tree of life ... Google Earth for The Tree of Life. By Carl Zimmer. February 9, 2009. There are perhaps ten million species on Earth, joined together by common ancestry.

Tree of Life: The Incredible Biodiversity of Life on Earth Rochelle Strauss. Kids Can Press, $18.95 (40pp) ISBN 978-1-55337-669-9 ...