Invertebrate research bias in ecology is measurable and worsening: a new audit of 1.38 million papers across 612 journals by UNSW researchers finds vertebrate studies attract 43% more online attention ...

Scientists have discovered a missing evolution puzzle piece in 130-million-year-old rocks. The discovery is a result of an international collaboration, in which the Faculty of Sciences of the ...

In most narratives, the story of evolution is the story of organisms emerging from the ocean and eventually populating the land. But for some species, that evolution also involved a return trip.

Millions of years after animals first conquered land, some took an extraordinary evolutionary U-turn and returned to the ...

Tiny pigment granules in fossil fish eyes mirror patterns in living species, revealing ancient clues to vision and raising ...

An international scientific team made up of more than 40 authors from seven different countries, led by the researcher at the University of Malaga Juan Pascual Anaya, has managed to sequence the first ...

For more than half a century, the Tully monster (Tullimonstrum gregarium), an enigmatic animal that lived about 300 million years ago, has confounded paleontologists, with its strange anatomy making ...

The Vertebrate Genomes Project: It's an ambitious effort by an international group of scientists to create a "Genome Ark" by sequencing the genomes of about 70,000 animal species. The hope is that ...

The Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW), housed in the Director's Office of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), provides guidance and interpretation of the Public Health Service (PHS) ...