For decades, one puzzle stood out among the many mysteries of early animal evolution: the missing origin story of bryozoans.

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For nearly 30 years, a landmark study shaped how scientists understood the relationship between brain and body size in ...

Blind Mexican cavefish became active in light while surface fish reacted to darkness, revealing how evolution rewired brains.

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New biomechanical research shows Smilodon's legendary saber teeth came with a surprisingly weak bite — and reveals the real ...

The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an ...

Scientists have long posited that the earliest water animals to transition to land had amphibious tadpole features, going ...