A new study into one of the world’s oldest types of fish, the coelacanth, illuminates for the first time the development of the brain and skull of this...
According to new research published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, land animal diversity has been similar for at least the last 60 million...
It is no secret that climate change and environmental negligence have been worsened by human activity and accelerated industrialization over the past century,...
A team of scientists from Australia and China has found that many of the viruses infecting us today have ancient evolutionary histories that date back...
An international team of researchers has discovered that systems enabling the South American lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa) to control blood flow during...
An international team of scientists has uncovered information about the nerve networks required for walking on land, suggesting the last common ancestor...
New findings from researchers at the University of Cambridge, UK, support the theory that teeth in the animal kingdom evolved from the jagged scales of...
Greenland sharks (Somniosus microcephalus) live at least as long as 400 years, according to a team of marine biologists led by Dr. Julius Nielsen from...
A team of paleontologists from the United States has determined that Tullimonstrum gregarium (popularly known as the Tully monster) — a large soft-bodied...
Re-analysis of the braincase of Acanthodes bronni has revealed that this 290-million-year-old fossil fish resembled a shark.
The fossilized braincase...
