The Cambrian Explosion is a landmark moment in the history of life on Earth when many of the major groups of animals first ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection isn't an idea with holes. It's one of the most solid theories in science. But what exactly is it?

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 ...

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.