So much science starts with deciphering a genome, the blueprint for every being on Earth. With such roadmaps in hand, ...

Anxiety, the psychological and physiological state characterized by an anticipation of potential threats and a heightened ...

In the past, many scientists believed that only mammals and birds could feel or think in complex ways. Reptiles, fish, and ...

From spiders to scorpions, some 1000 different invertebrate species are traded globally as pets. This is bad for biodiversity ...

Learn how playing dead can keep you alive - we reveal the fascinating concept of death feigning in the animal world.

This Research Topic aims to compile cutting-edge research methodology with different model systems include vertebrate and invertebrate animals, brain organoids, and induced pluripotent stem cell-based ...

When it comes to color vision in the animal kingdom, there's a clear winner: the mantis shrimp. These alien-looking ...

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 ...

Over 94 percent of the country’s animal species diversity belongs to invertebrates and less than 6 percent to vertebrates. Insects, with at least 26,800 species, account for more than 70 percent of ...

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