But now you can do it with fractals. A new website launching today lets you explore all of the evolutionary tree of life, zooming in and out like you would use an online map. It’s called OneZoom ...

In nature, fractal patterns aren’t just aesthetically ... Gustav Klimt’s 1909 painting “L’Arbre de Vie” (“Tree of Life”). Though the tree’s depiction in this artwork is highly ...

Newly uncovered fossils reveal in extraordinary clarity the strangeness of the Earth’s earliest complex life. The finds show that the organisms were assembled in fractal patterns from frond-like ...

The trunk and boughs of a tree, for example ... create a hidden web that helps sustain the teeming life above. The stuff of art, then (of which more later) — but also of science. ‘The perfect fractal ...

Fractals appear everywhere in nature, from the branches of a tree to the edges of a snowflake. And Mandelbrot himself wondered if the universe is a fractal. If, as we zoom out, we will see the ...