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.

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.

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 ...

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Animals with fire-adapted traits have already been identified throughout the West. Here are five examples of what Jones calls “evolution in action.” Credit: Jill Pelto/High Country News ...

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 ...

The study, recently published in the journal Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, suggests that the genetic variation of two species, the Brazilian sibilator frog and the granular toad, both ...

Plants and animals are evolving in cities around the world — offering ways to study longstanding scientific questions and clues to where climate change is taking us ...

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.

“Placozoans, ctenophores, sponges, and other non-traditional model animals harbor secrets that we are only just beginning to unlock.” Not bad for a blob. Tim Newcomb ...