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Feb. 7, 2022 —Scientists have discovered a new fossil that reveals the origin of gills in ...
Apr. 23, 2021 —Scientists have identified a new phylum of microbes found around the world that appear to be playing an important (and surprising) role in the global carbon cycle by helping break down decaying ...
Mar. 20, 2023 —Researchers have detected previously overlooked eyes whose form and function could help to improve the evolutionary classification of archaic ...
May 26, 2022 —Even the smallest marine invertebrates -- some barely larger than single-celled protists -- are home to distinct and diverse microbial communities, or microbiomes, according to biologists. The study ...
Oct. 1, 2020 —The number of alien (non-native) species is expected to increase globally by 36% by the middle of this century, compared to 2005, finds new ...
Feb. 17, 2022 —Whether nectar-sucking butterflies or blood-sucking mosquitoes - the ingestion of liquid food has long been known for many insects and other arthropods. A research team now shows that millipedes also ...
Aug. 20, 2021 —Rare fossils preserving the brains of creatures living more than half a billion years ago shed new light on the evolution of arthropods such as insects and ...
Aug. 1, 2022 —New research provide evidence that the crustacean carapace, along with other plate-like structures in arthropods (crustaceans, insects, arachnids, and myriapods) all evolved from a lateral leg lobe ...
Aug. 27, 2021 —Animals as small and soft as tardigrades seldom have legs and almost never bother walking. But a new study finds that water bears propel themselves through sediment and soil on eight stubby legs, in ...
Dec. 6, 2021 —Efforts to sequence the genomes of the world's animals tend to focus on those that most resemble humans with the work conducted almost entirely in the Global North, according to new analysis. ...