So "if you go further back along the branches of the tree of life, you find that [Neornithes] also belong to the more inclusive clade Theropoda," a group of two-legged and mostly meat-eating ...

Though hardly a household name like Velociraptor or Tyrannosaurus rex, Megalosaurus holds a key place in the history of paleontology. That’s not because it’s an exceptional dinosaur but as it was the ...

Hemiptera, the fifth most diverse insect order, have often been overlooked in macroevolutionary studies. In this study, the authors analyse its fossil record and show that global flora changes ...

Turtles (Testudinata sensu Joyce et al., 2004) are a diverse group of reptiles with an unusual “bauplan” fundamentally different from that of other amniotes. Unique morphological characters, including ...