A research team has created a comprehensive evolutionary tree of all bird species, integrating data from hundreds of studies ...

ROADIES— which stands for “Reference-free, Orthology-free, Annotation-free, Discordance-aware Estimation of Species Trees”-- ...

By combining data on all known bird species, this tree is the most impressive snapshot yet of one of Earth’s most ...

Professor Emily Jane McTavish and colleagues at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have mapped the evolution of every known bird ...

Declining threats worldwide have led to the recovery of endangered sea turtles, a new study finds. While this recovery is not uniform, inculcating technology can reduce the vulnerability faced by them ...

Scientists visited Hon Lao Island and found two critically endangered turtles being kept as pets. Photos show the first-of-its-kind sighting. Screengrab from YouTube video shared by Thinking ...

Garden State Tortoise founder Chris Leone gets plenty of requests to take in turtles people can no longer care for. Rockalina’s case was different. “Like we do in any rescue, we ask to see the ...

As the war in Ukraine rages on through the Summer of 2024, footage released on June 17 shows the Ukrainian Armed Forces capturing a curious Russian tank somewhere in the tumultuous Donetsk Oblast.

Mommy, a western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoise (Chelonoidis niger porteri), made international headlines earlier this month for becoming the oldest first-time mom of her species.Mommy's exact age ...

An evolutionary tree showing how theropod beaks and snouts follow the power cascade throughout their evolution. (Garland et al., iScience 2025) After surviving the mass extinction, birds underwent a ...

April 22 (UPI) --Hundreds arrived at Marathon, Fla., to witness the release of a rehabilitated sea turtle named Addie into the Atlantic Ocean during the Florida Keys Earth Day celebration Tuesday ...