Peter Contos receives funding from the Ecological Society of Australia. Heloise Gibb receives funding from the Hermon Slade Foundation and the Australian Research Council Many of Australia’s natural ...

In the competitive human world, a common platitude says that a man needs “backbone” to succeed. In the competitive animal world it is different. Scientists have other criteria than fame, money and ...

All life forms are endowed with the ability to sense gravity. However, the mechanism is not well-understood in acoels, a group of marine flatworms that represent a primitive invertebrate (without ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Oceanic islands host 50 percent of the world’s endangered species, but human activities can greatly disturb these isolated ecosystems. The number ...

Scientists have long puzzled over the gap in the fossil record that would explain the evolution of invertebrates to vertebrates. Vertebrates, including fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, ...