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 ...

Researchers exploring caves in Australia’s Nullarbor Plain have found mummified, eyeless invertebrates, including spiders, ...

Researchers of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences have reconstructed the likely appearance of an extinct group of comb jellies, one of the oldest known animal phyla. Their findings ...

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 ...

Ancient retroviruses played a key role in the evolution of vertebrate brains. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 02 / 240215113551.htm.

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.