Scientists have generated the genome assemblies of two hidden-neck turtles, unpublished until now. The results, which revealed a new three-dimensional structure of the genome within the phylogenetic ...

Human-driven bird extinctions over the last 130,000 years have cut avian functional diversity and erased 3 billion years of ...

Evidence suggests that “the precursors to the dinosaurs and pterosaurs were much more diverse than previously imagined.” ...

Phylogenetics, systematics, and biogeography deal with the identifying, classifying, and understanding the relationships among organisms, including their geographical extent. Methods range from ...

Human-driven bird extinction reduces functional diversity, impacting ecosystem roles like pollination and pest control.

Newly Discovered Late Cretaceous Birds May Have Carried Heavy Prey Like Extant Raptors Oct. 9, 2024 — Newly discovered birds from Late Cretaceous North America were hawk-sized and had powerful ...

Using the most comprehensive dataset to date of all known bird extinctions during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene, the paper "The global loss of avian functional and phylogenetic diversity from ...

Using the most comprehensive dataset to date of all known bird extinctions during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene, the paper ‘The global loss of avian functional and phylogenetic diversity ...

Ornithologists at the International Ornithologists' Union (IOU) are working to merge the three most widely used global avian ...

it’s basically like chopping off a branch of the tree of life and all of that associated phylogenetic diversity is also lost.

Don’t take the birds in your backyard for granted. Beyond eating bugs or invasive plant seeds, backyard birds provide people with joy and wonder, said Geoff LeBaron, Christmas Bird Count ...