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Is there only one optimal configuration an organism can reach during evolution? Is there a single formula that describes the trajectory towards the optimum? And can we 'derive' it in a purely ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...