University of Michigan researchers have used an AI tool to demonstrate that birds in the group Passeriformes evolved in rapid evolutionary bursts and that these bursts frequently coincided with climate shifts throughout Earth’s history.
The researchers used Skelevision to scan and measure more than 15,000 individual museum specimens, most of which came from the U-M Museum of Zoology collections. Scanning each specimen takes only about 45 seconds, which makes it possible to digitize entire collections.
