Virginia Tech study unveils 2 billion years of evolution, highlighting the 'boring billion,' Snowball Earth, and ancient ...

A groundbreaking study by the Roslin Institute explores how whole genome duplication shaped the complexity and evolution of ...

“Evolution isn't just a story about where we ... one of somewhere between 5 and 100 million distinct types of organisms living on Earth today. Incredibly, the story of how you are related ...

An international team of scientists has uncovered a fascinating piece of the evolutionary puzzle: how the ventral nerve cord, ...

Many species of multicellular organisms differ greatly from each ... not the unicellular one might have been important for the evolution of multicellularity. That is, certain "special" genes ...

The adaptations of organisms allow them to thrive in different habitats, including extreme environments. Evolution explains how better adapted organisms have an advantage and are more likely to ...

Evolution is often depicted as a steady forward march from simple to complex forms. But new research shows that certain ferns can evolve “backward” ...

The discovery could be the “missing link” in the evolution of animals, according to the team ... The fossil offers new insight into the transition of single celled organisms to complex, multicellular ...

Later, animals - multicellular organisms - evolved, developing from a single cell, the egg cell, to form complex beings. This ...