Birds are the only dinosaur lineage that survived until today. About 66 million years ago at the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary, a mass extinction event destroyed all non-avian dinosaurs ...

The largest-ever study of bird genomes has produced a remarkably clear picture of the bird family tree. Published in the journal Nature today, our study shows that most of the modern groups of ...

An international team of scientists has created the largest and most detailed bird family tree ever, spanning 93 million years and representing 92% of bird families species, using cutting-edge ...

Birds are the most diverse vertebrates on land ... As a girl, Stiller sometimes ran into trouble with her mythological family tree. “Placing Zeus was a nightmare because he interacted with ...

After 10 years of work, the largest-ever study of bird genomes has produced a remarkably clear picture of the bird family tree. Published in the journal Nature, the study shows that most of the modern ...

Jacqueline Nguyen receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Simon Ho receives funding from the Australian Research Council. The largest-ever study of bird genomes has produced a ...

The resulting family trees can offer some surprising finds. Take, for instance, ratites, a group of mostly large, flightless birds in the southern hemisphere, and include the ostrich, rhea ...

The researchers have used the genetic information from 363 species of birds covering 92% of all bird families to piece together an immense family tree. This is the most complete, highest-resolution ...

She and her large extended family have strong bonds ... A bit of anthropomorphism was necessary because, after all, the birds and trees in the book are speaking our language—but that’s ...

We needed a whole bunch of genomes to correctly infer what the family tree of birds were like. …So we did that for birds, which was a huge task by itself, just sequencing all those genomes and ...