The animal kingdoms of Asia and Australia are worlds apart, thanks to an invisible line that runs right between the two neighboring continents. Most wildlife never cross this imaginary boundary, not ...

A genomic atlas of Nematostella vectensis reveals how primitive animals created multiple cell types millions of years ago, ...

The conservation of genome regulatory elements over long periods of evolution is not limited to vertebrates, as previously ...

Officially mapped in 1863, but in effect for millions of years, Wallace's Line has maintained two distinct animal kingdoms on either side. Stand on the shores of Bali and look east. Across the water ...

Chromosphaera perkinsii is a single-celled species discovered in 2017 in marine sediments around Hawaii. The first signs of its presence on Earth have been dated at over a billion years, well before ...

A microorganism whose evolutionary roots can be traced to the era of the first multicellular animals may provide a glimpse of how single-celled organisms made a critical evolutionary leap. In ...

A series of whole genome and gene duplication events that go back hundreds of millions of years have laid the foundations for tissue-specific gene expression, according to a new study. The 'copy-paste ...

Biologists present groundbreaking research shedding new light on the evolution of social bonds and cooperation among group-living animals. Biologists from Stockholm University and University of ...

Look in the mirror and the feature that quietly sets you apart from every other species is not your eyes or your opposable ...