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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...