Journal of Threatened Taxa “A photo of an adult male Malay Crestless Fireback (Lophura erythrophthalma) in the lowland forest was recorded on … flat land with medium to large trees separated ...

In most cases, researchers draw phylogenetic trees in such a way as to record only those events that are relevant to a set of living taxa. Most commonly, these taxa are species. For example ...

Are the bones of several tiny individuals from the island of Flores the newest addition to our family tree, or are they the remains of diseased humans only masquerading as an extinct species?