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

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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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

However, neither group seemed to want to resolve the discrepancy between their two theories of how vertebrate palliums evolved, according to García-Moreno. “No, they kept working on their own method,” ...

The other possibility is that the kinds of neural circuits that support vertebrate intelligence evolved independently in birds and mammals. It’s hard to track down which path evolution took, ...