Learn about the climate changes that followed the end-Permian extinction, allowing select species to take over the planet’s ...

Scientists don't call it the "Great Dying" for nothing. About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species ...

A green pit viper named after Salazar Slytherin from Harry Potter, an unfamiliar snake found in an Instagram post, and twelve ...

Stanford scientists found that dramatic climate changes after the Great Dying enabled a few marine species to spread globally ...

Scientists discovered a 400-million-year-old fossil known as Prototaxites, which does not belong to any known life form ...

After Earth's worst mass extinction, surviving ocean animals spread worldwide. Stanford's model shows why this happened.

Closely related species form a genus, which are put together into larger and more distantly related groups of organisms until they reach domains, the top rank. The traditional three domains of ...

The here developed VITAP is a taxonomic assignment pipeline for DNA and RNA viruses that efficiently classifies incomplete viral sequences (as short as 1000-bp) down to genus level. A study of ...

Prototaxites, an extinct organism from the Devonian period, has been thought to be a fungus since its first fossil was ...

“The Paris of the Midwest,” some call it. Once a year, over the first weekend in March, Columbia, Missouri becomes the most ...

DNA-based taxonomy stands to revolutionise this status quo ... We will also consider the impacts of human land and water use patterns and climate change on these organisms. We will have 13 taxonomists ...