A reconstruction of the Jiangchuan biota, an assemblage of early animals represented by fossils from a newly discovered fossil site in China?s Yunnan Province dating to about 554 to 539 million years ...

A University of Montpellier study published on September 1st in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reported that human intervention over the last millennium drove a sharp divergence ...

Animals able to change behaviors but slow to evolve might fare better than previously thought amid climate change. In response to a warmer climate, ground squirrels and marmots in California are ...

The study outlines a new scenario for understanding how genome regulation and chromatin organization influence the evolution of animal body plans. The conservation of genome regulatory elements over ...

Embryonic germ layers are the fundamental organizing principle in animal development. They provide the structural basis from which tissues and organs arise. During early embryogenesis, cells divide to ...

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