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

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

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

In a stunning revelation, scientists have unearthed shark fossils dating back 325 million years in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky.

New research is shaking up our understanding of evolution by revealing that some species may not evolve gradually at all. Instead, scientists discovered that certain marine worms experienced an ...

A research team led by the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE), a mixed research centre belonging to the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), points for the ...

The greatest parasite of the modern age is no blood-sucking invertebrate. It is sleek, glass-fronted and addictive by design. Its host? Every human on Earth with a wifi signal.

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

In 2015, two members of the Blue Beach Fossil Museum in Nova Scotia found a long, curved fossil jaw, bristling with teeth.

Every living thing today is a descendant of something that crawled out of the primordial ooze. And now using an old fossil of one of the most ancient fish species known, scientists might be able to ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life we find there are many groups of mammals that have evolved testicles of all different sizes. In almost all these separate cases, ...

To solve the problem, some species of nematodes have been known to assemble into bridge-like towers, but it’s been seen only ...