The classification of organisms into groups, taxonomy, has taken a step forward thanks to work by researchers at the University of Queensland. Led by Professor Philip Hugenholtz, the team approached ...

This article was originally featured on Undark. For centuries, taxonomists have cataloged every living thing they could find. Expeditions have traveled the globe, searching for unknown species; ...

Micro-organisms constitute a very antique group of living organisms which appeared on the Earth’s surface almost 3000 million ...

When considering the scientists who influenced our understanding of evolution, it’s natural to think of Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, Rosalind Franklin, W.D. Hamilton, Barbara McClintock, and Richard ...

Cladistics is one way scientists classify organisms. A cladogram shows the nature of evolutionary relationships that may have occurred, similar to a family tree. You will make a cladogram in this ...

In the quest to decipher the evolutionary relationships of extinct organisms from fossils, researchers often face challenges in discerning key features from weathered fossils, or with prioritizing ...