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 ...

By analysing the genomes of more than 360 bird species, our study has identified the fundamental relationships among the major groups of living birds. The new family tree overturns some previous ...

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 ...

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 ...

A time-calibrated evolutionary family tree of all the archosaurs more closely related to crocodiles than to birds. CREDIT: Payne et al. Silhouettes from S. Hartman, D. Bogdanov, N. Tamura.

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 ...