Anyone who has watched a rooster stalking around a farmyard might agree that there is something very dinosaur-like about ...

Phylogenetic tree generated from 86 nuclear genes sequences of 29 citrus samples (species/cultivars) with Poncirus trifoliata as the outgroup. A research team conducted a comprehensive analysis of ...

The journal Science China Life Sciences published a study reported by Academician Hang Sun’s group from Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The research team demonstrated the ...

The branching structure of biological evolution confers statistical dependencies on phenotypic trait values in related organisms. For this reason, comparative macroevolutionary studies usually begin ...

Modern scrub mints, delicate flowering plants that grow mostly in Florida, likely result from ancient hybridization, according to a recent study I published with colleagues. Scrub mints are a clade – ...

Paleontologists in China have made an exciting discovery with the unearthing of a new theropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic period, around 170 million years ago. The species, named Yuanmouraptor ...