A tree of life diagram for all flowering plant genera based on DNA analysis. (Image credit: Image by Zuntini et al., 2024, CC BY) All species on Earth, both living and extinct, are related.

May 16, 2024 / 9:59 AM EDT / CBS News The "grotesque" baobab tree has long been known as the "tree of life" for its ability to create and maintain its own ecosystem in arid regions.

Birds are the most diverse land vertebrate on the planet, and now scientists have constructed a complete evolutionary tree of the 11,000 or so known species. This data came from hundreds of ...

That allowed the team behind the Nature paper to design new tools for sequencing nuclear genes from a huge variety of flowering plants, said William Baker, who leads the Kew Gardens Tree of Life ...