An international research team concludes that gentle touch is not only good for mental health, but also for the evolution of cooperation.

An international research team led by the University of Konstanz and Oxford Brookes University concludes that gentle touch is ...

When a bird drapes its nest with snake skin, it isn't just making an interesting home décor choice. For some birds, it keeps ...

The discovery of Punk ferox and Emo vorticaudum is a reminder of how much remains to be learned about life’s evolutionary ...

Scientists discovered that choanoflagellates coordinate their movements through electrical signaling via voltage-gated ...

Why would evolution produce an organism that must spend 150 minutes a week doing things like running on a treadmill to ...

An international team of scientists has uncovered a fascinating piece of the evolutionary puzzle: how the ventral nerve cord, a key component of the central nervous system, evolved in ecdysozoan ...

The prehistoric creatures look to be sporting a punk hairstyle and emo bangs, and one of them seemingly moved like an ...

Punk ferox was named due to the fancied resemblance of the spicule array to the spiked hairstyles associated with the punk rock movement.

In a world-first, scientists have unearthed the genetic secrets of Australia’s elusive southern marsupial mole.

Discover how a recent fossil study sheds light on the evolution of the ventral nerve cord in ecdysozoan animals and its ...

Saber-tooth fangs acted like an “evolutionary ratchet,” ensuring the hunting prowess of animals but limiting their ...