Ancient deep-sea organisms suggest movement, sexual reproduction, and complex animal life began earlier than previously thought.

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Exceptionally preserved fossils from China reveal that bryozoans were already thriving during the Cambrian explosion.

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Citizen science data from the popular platform iNaturalist has helped uncover the evolution of parental guarding behavior in harvestmen spiders, as shown in research published in the Zoological ...

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new picture of how life on Earth – and elsewhere – may have begun ...

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Evolution seems to follow a script more often than expected. Researchers found that distantly related butterflies and moths have reused the same pair of genes for over 120 million years to produce ...

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