The young plant, protected by a makeshift fence of wood and wire, is a kind of dragon’s blood tree — a species found only on the Yemeni island of Socotra that is now struggling to survive ...

The shrub-like trees, found in parts of Africa, southern Arabia and the Indian subcontinent, produce an aromatic resin called frankincense that’s been used worldwide for centuries in incense ...

Those in Chordata have backbones ... We can find common ancestors on diagrams scientists make called phylogenetic trees. They show how different groups of living things are related to each ...

The tool, called PsiPartition, improves both the computational efficiency of the data analysis and the accuracy of the phylogenetic trees that visualize these relationships. The novel method was ...

The presumed blood vessel was a dorsal nerve cord, a feature associated with the animal group known as chordates ... belonged on the chordate family tree. With the description of a dorsal ...

The resulting phylogenetic estimate offers novel insights into the rapid radiation of modern birds and provides a taxon-rich backbone tree for future comparative studies.” By updating the family ...

Filaments of fungi intertwine with the tips of tree roots to form underground networks that seem to benefit both organisms: the filaments, called hyphae, break down minerals in the soil that trees ...

It details a new software created by the researchers to search the COVID-19 phylogenetic tree, a diagram of the virus's evolutionary history, for instances of recombination. This software is open ...

“The construction of phylogenetic trees has opened the door to a wave of uninhibited speculation,” one wrote in 1959. “Science ends where comparative morphology, comparative ...

New DNA technology is shaking up the family trees of many plants and animals. Scientists in Darwin’s time and through most of the 20th century could only work out the branches of the ...