Researchers examine a 500-million-year-old fossil from Morocco and find out that echinoderms went from bilateral to ...

Worms radically reorganized their genomes during their move from sea to land, supporting the theory of punctuated equilibrium ...

Darwin saw the evolution of the vertebrate eye as one of the biggest challenges for his theory. Lamb and colleagues integrate molecular and morphological evidence across different taxa and propose ...

Scientists have long puzzled over the gap in the fossil record that would explain the evolution of invertebrates to vertebrates. Vertebrates, including fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals ...

The Many Humans of the Globe As our species (Homo sapiens) evolved and spread across the globe, they were contemporary with ...

A team of researchers from the University of Adelaide, in collaboration with cavers, has uncovered a large number of eyeless, ...

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A research team at the University of Münster has investigated for the first time how the confrontation of bacteria with hosts ...

It was soft, wormlike, lived more than 500 million years ago - and now scientists say the extinct animal was an ancient ancestor of modern vertebrates. Scientists have long been searching for ...

Retroviruses can be a powerful engine of evolution, and myelin appears to be one of the most remarkable examples. “It does make sense that a retrovirus might be involved,” Carleton says.