A surprise discovery in a remote Australian desert region has given us new clues into the evolution of complex animal life, dating back more than 500 million years. The numerous fossils of the ...

Then, some time later, there were their descendants, the early animals: multicelled creatures, still swimming, eating, reproducing, but doing it all as teams of cells. Exactly what happened ...

New Study Maps Dramatic 100-Million-Year Explosion in Color Signals Used by Animals Nov. 7, 2024 — A recent study finds that color vision evolved in animals more than 100 million years before ...

This may be part of why humans find some animals particularly cute. “Basically, cuteness worked so well in our evolution that it easily spills over to trigger a cuteness response for animals and ...

Chromosphaera perkinsii is a single-celled species discovered in 2017 in marine sediments around Hawaii. The first signs of its presence on Earth have been dated at over a billion years, well before ...

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17, 2024 — Environmental DNA, also known as eDNA, is genetic material shed from animals and plants that ... Apr. 23, 2024 — When we think of evolution, we think of a process that happens ...

Today's ecologists have more data than ever before to help monitor and understand the world's biodiversity. Yet researchers ...

As XEC, the latest COVID variant takes hold, we are watching viral evolution play out on a time scale short enough to follow, with different strains of the SARS-CoV-2 virus independently acquiring ...

Experts tell us that if humans became crab-like, it would be a slightly horrifying experience. Crabs molt their entire outer exoskeleton, from their eyes to their gut.

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Researchers from the University of Otago provide arguably the world’s most clear-cut case of animal evolution in response to change made by humans. They found the stonefly taking a different ...