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Beginning around 390 million years ago, however, the ancestors of modern land animals rose out of the waters, trading their ...

Chromosphaera perkinsii is a single-celled species discovered in 2017 in marine sediments around Hawaii. The first signs of ...

Colors evolved for survival, with animals using them for warnings and mating, and plants attracting pollinators.

While animals already have the genes needed to degrade ethanol before yeasts began producing it, there is some evidence that ...

If we became crab-like it would be a slightly horrifying experience, an expert tells us. Crabs molt their entire outer exoskeleton, from their eyes to their gut.

A comprehensive new 10-year study led by researchers at Arizona State University examined more than 16,000 necropsy records ...

Today's ecologists have more data than ever before to help monitor and understand the world's biodiversity. Yet researchers ...