Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants ...

A fossil bed in China containing animals up to 554 million years old suggests that we may have to reconsider the idea that ...

Ancient animal history is extremely difficult to reconstruct, for a number of reasons. Some of the earliest creatures in existence were soft-bodied and microscopic, leaving behind very little evidence ...

Animals come in an extraordinary range of body shapes. A starfish looks nothing like an earthworm, a mouse, or a human. Yet even closely related species can appear radically different: corals, ...

Researchers at Northwestern University have identified a single mechanical ratio that dozens of unrelated sea creatures, from jellyfish to squid to bony fish, appear to share when they swim. The ...

Genomic analysis reveals squid and cuttlefish evolved in deep oceans, survived mass extinction in refuges, and later rapidly diversified, following a “long fuse” evolutionary pattern.

Inspired by the theories of D’Arcy Thompson, scientists combined theoretical and experimental approaches to establish ‘mechanotypes’ as the physical links between genes and body shapes. Pictured are ...

SeaWorld’s rapid overhaul of a new ride quietly reflects growing guest concerns about the park’s overall decline.

"This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature"--Title page verso. NH copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Part I. The wider evolutionary context. 1. Evolutionary ...

Off the coast of Central America, in Mexico’s Chetumal Bay, a vast, mysterious disc of deep blue stands out against the ...

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