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 ...

Truth is, we don’t know how the Tree of Life will fall, and we don’t know when. It could happen in five years, in 40 years, ...

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 ...

FORKS, Wash. — In Kalaloch, on the Washington coast, people from all over the world come to stand in wonder and take pictures ...

The “Tree of Life” in Olympic National Park has become a symbol of resilience over the years, but recent photos show that this bastion of beating the odds may be coming to its end.

Beneath the bogs of New Zealand’s Northland is a massive Ngāwhā kauri, living from 41,000 to 42,500 years ago, which gives an isolated, unbroken record of a period when Earth’s magnetic field declined ...

By studying the genetic tree of life, ... but scientists are slowly putting together genetic puzzle pieces to learn more about how the first life on Earth lived, between 2.5 and 4 billion years ago.

The origins of life on Earth have long fascinated scientists, particularly the nature of the last universal common ancestor ...

It may be hard to imagine complicated life forms on early Earth. Oxygen was low and asteroids may have been pelting the baby planet’s surface. Despite those harsh conditions, a microbe may have ...

Scientists studied rare butterfly fossils and collected DNA from nearly 2,300 species to create the ultimate tree of life and learn where butterflies originated when they first appeared on Earth ...

Scientists studied rare butterfly fossils and collected DNA from nearly 2,300 species to create the ultimate tree of life and learn where butterflies originated when they first appeared on Earth ...

An expansive search across the globe from California Academy of Sciences researchers in 2022 uncovered nearly 150 new species, which increased Earth's tree of life. With frequent media coverage of ...