The distribution of species around the globe is not a random process but an outcome resulting from several evolutionary ...

Scientists disagree on whether the cerebral cortex—the more evolved part of the brain—is necessary for conscious emotional ...

A University of Arizona study has uncovered a surprising relationship between an animal's body temperature and its likelihood ...

Ants fill a 150-year gap in biodiversity studies, showing strong biogeographic ties with plants. Researchers mapped nine ...

Researchers have traced cell origins critical to vertebrate evolution by studying a group of primitive ... the most primitive version of the type of animal you're studying is, which leads us ...

The recent uncovering of a new soft-bodied vertebrate fossil in the American Great Basin region enhances our knowledge of ...

An international team of researchers led by Konstanz evolutionary biologist Axel Meyer and Würzburg biochemist Manfred Schartl has sequenced the largest genome of all animals ... fish ancestors of ...

But even though chordates—the group that includes vertebrates like humans—were part of this early animal diversification, they make up a relatively small portion of fossils from more than 50 ...

And getting some perspective on their evolutionary history has proven difficult because they have the largest genomes known ...

Losing this factor may have limited the ability of neural crest cells to form cell types found in jawed vertebrates (animals with spines) that make up the head and jaw skeleton. The study will be ...

The distribution of species around the globe is not a random process but an outcome resulting from several evolutionary mechanisms as well as past and current environmental limitations. As a result, ...