Editor’s note: When we begin to study the variety iof life forms on other worlds we’ll need to have a way to catalog what we have discovered, make an image […]
Systematics
Earth Life Biodiversity: Vast DNA Tree Of life For Flowering Plants Revealed
The most up-to-date understanding of the flowering plant tree of life is presented in a new study published today in the journal Nature by an international team of 279 scientists, […]
Digitizing UK Natural History Collections Is Vital To Understand Life On Earth
Editor’s note: here on Earth we have yet to complete catalog all of the species of life on our planet. Over the centuries improved ways of characterizing life forms and […]
LifeGate – New interactive Map Shows The Full Diversity Of Life
If you want to find out which places are close to Quito, you search on Google Maps. If, on the other hand, you want to find out which animals are […]
Untangling The Tree of Life on Earth
Two recent high-profile phylogenetic studies reached conflicting conclusions about whether snail’s closest relatives are bivalves or an enigmatic group called tusk shells. Vanderbilt phylogeneticists suggest that the cause of this […]
