Flying is really hard work. Compared to walking, swimming, or running, flying is the form of movement that takes the most energy and requires the most calories. That means that birds have had to ...
Scientists undertook the first comprehensive assessment of how often snakes eat their own, uncovering reports of the behavior ...
Florida rang in the New Year under an Arctic chill — and the cold delivered one of the Sunshine State’s strangest spectacles: iguanas falling from the sky. A sharp cold snap sent temperatures plunging ...
Abstract: Phylogenetic placement is the problem of placing sequences into a given phylogenetic tree, called a “backbone tree”. EPA-ng and pplacer are the two most accurate phylogenetic placement ...
Modern-day crocodiles like this one arrived in Australia about 3.8 million years ago. But a distant branch of them that lived there tens of millions of years ago included some members that dropped ...
The phylogenetic affinities of early dinosaurs are a controversial topic. There are disputing scenarios aiming to explain the evolutionary tree of these reptiles. A number of factors play a role on ...
Arb for Mac is a powerful bioinformatics tool designed for phylogenetic tree analysis and sequence alignment. It offers advanced visualization, editing. Arb for Mac is a specialized bioinformatics ...
A rollover crash caused a road closure in Scituate Monday evening. Burrillville police identify man found dead in fire Burrillville police identified a man who was found dead after a trailer fire last ...
The story behind Sphenodraco scandentis is a tale of rediscovery. The reptile’s fossil was first known in the 1930s when a specimen was discovered in the Solnhofen limestone slabs at the Senckenberg ...
Birds are extraordinary in their diversity, ecological breadth, and global distribution. This makes them a powerful system to study ecology and evolution, particularly as large-scale datasets on ...
The story of primates is a tale of incredible variety and ancient roots, told through the lens of science, DNA, and time itself. These creatures, ranging from massive gorillas to tiny mouse lemurs, ...