Thus, current concepts of "Reptilia" generally include birds as members of this clade ... Unless indicated otherwise, a phylogenetic tree only depicts the branching history of common ancestry.

Thus, understanding the evolutionary history of living species amounts to understanding where on the tree of life these species' distinctive traits arose. Moreover, phylogenetic trees serve as ...

Instead, today crocodiles are birds' closest living relatives, even though they sit far apart on the phylogenetic tree. To put it into human terms, "if all non-human primates were to suddenly go ...

Instruct students to use Deep Tree to create a phylogenetic tree poster or digital ... and relevant resources. The birds-of-paradise are among the most beautiful creatures on earth—and an ...

The broken-wing display, in which birds fake being wounded to protect their nests from predators, is found across the avian phylogenetic tree, a study finds. Now that it had an audience, the killdeer ...