Animals from completely different branches of the tree of life, such as insects, worms and vertebrates, independently evolved ...

How animals of the Cambrian period experienced the Cambrian Explosion, which shaped life today and could help researchers ...

Scientists compared genomes from 154 animal species and found that land animals share genetic tricks for surviving outside ...

Opening up a portal into the earliest days of animal evolution, Monterey Bay area scientists have unlocked the genetic code of a comb jelly, a shimmering sea creature whose ancestors are among the ...

Large blocks of genes conserved through hundreds of millions of years of evolution hint at how the first animal chromosomes came to be. Chromosomes, the bundles of DNA that star in the mitotic ballet ...

A tiny freshwater snail from New Zealand is giving scientists a glimpse into evolution in motion. University of Iowa ...

"This book was originally published as an issue of Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society B; Biological sciences (volume 363; number 1496) but has been materially changed and updated"--Title ...

Behavioral traits get passed on via an animal’s genetics, but a new study reveals that the microbiome can pass them on too, ...

This article was originally featured on High Country News. Increasing frequent and intense fires are shaping how species change, according to a paper published last year in the journal Trends in ...