The human body is a machine whose many parts—from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Researchers Trace Evolutionary Trajectory of Starfish's Unique Symmetry Through a 500 Million-Year-Old Fossil The star shape ...