To recapture a key moment in evolution, when aquatic animals walked out of the ocean, a group of scientists is building robots that mimic the motions of ancient organisms, according to a report in ...

During the Ediacaran period, around 580 million years ago, the first animals appeared, but were mostly soft-bodied jellyfish-like creatures, unlike any modern animals.

Mods have allowed fans to install new dinosaurs into Jurassic World Evolution 2, such as the Distortus Rex and Vastatosaurus Rex from King Kong.

Predatory fish that evolved into the first terrestrial animals on Earth are still revealing insights into the origins of ...

Dr. Musser said he was looking forward to seeing similar approaches applied to investigations of nervous system evolution in more ancient animal lineages like ctenophores, which include comb jellies.

The woolly mammoth model The mammoth's ancestors arose in Africa, and were tropically-adapted browsing animals closely related to the living elephants. Around 3 million years ago, they spread into the ...

Evolution alters animal shapes by tinkering with genes that control development and cellular functions. When I first trained as a developmental biologist, I was mostly using Caenorhabditis elegans as ...

The surprising evolution of the weirdest animals on Earth, according to a new study By Amanda Schupak, CNN 4 minute read Updated 12:47 PM EDT, Thu May 1, 2025 ...

A new technology developed at EPFL makes it possible for a single deep learning model to detect animal motion ... birds, fish, and insects – are also within the scope of the model's next evolution.

A new study suggests the platypus and echidna — the only egg-laying mammals — had a water-dwelling ancestor. The finding could upend what’s known of their evolution.