The researchers used several methods to explore the position of Baminornis zhenghensis in the evolutionary tree of birds. The ...

Phylogenetic trees are fractal in the sense that the same ... and turtles, but not birds. Because "reptiles" (in this sense) does not refer to a monophyletic group, it is difficult to make general ...

"I would say that any modern biologist would, or should, say that birds are reptiles," Martin Stervander, an evolutionary ...

A research team led by Professor Wang Min from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the ...

What do phylogenetic trees illustrate? These diagrams don't just organize knowledge of biodiversity - they also show us that living species are the summation of their evolutionary history.

In a nutshell A newly discovered 69-million-year-old bird skull from Antarctica proves that modern birds were already diverse ...

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 ...