SYDNEY, May 15 (Xinhua) -- Australian scientists' discovery of the continent's oldest known tree frog fossil, dating back 55 million years, reshapes the understanding of amphibian evolution in the ...

While Darwin (1859) showed that all life on Earth is related in a single evolutionary tree, he did little to map out its branches. The anatomist Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) ...

The evolutionary tree derived from Giles and colleagues' analyses places polypterids firmly within the Scanilepiformes. Furthermore, this analysis locates nearly all of the considerable array of ...

Evolutionary biology professor explains how to 'Walk the Tree of Life' Date: March 21, 2017 Source: Cornell University Summary: A professor discusses why the evolutionary Tree of Life approach to ...

Evolutionary algorithms have emerged as a robust alternative to traditional greedy approaches for decision tree induction. By mimicking the natural selection process, these algorithms iterate over ...

This particular Mixodectes pungens specimen represents a mature adult that weighed about three pounds, lived in trees, feasted on leaves, and may be among our closer evolutionary relatives.

Since first appearing during the age of dinosaurs, snakes have authored an evolutionary success story - slithering into almost every habitat on Earth, from oceans to tree tops. New research ...

The researchers also tried to link their evolutionary tree to known geological eras. On its own, the network of relationships shown by the DNA doesn’t contain any dates.