The process of carcinisation, evolution of crabs, sideways movement, crustaceans, convergent evolution and decapods and true ...

A yellow band across a wing might look like a simple flourish. In the South American rainforest, it can mean survival.

Artistic reconstruction of a dire wolf. You may have seen them in Game of Thrones, but dire wolves aren’t fantasy beasts.

Just like vertebrates, cephalopods—such as octopuses and squid—have elaborate brains. Neuroscientists are flocking to them ...

A recent discovery in Germany has revealed a 180-million-year-old ichthyosaur fossil, specifically from the Temnodontosaurus ...

There are roughly 7,000 species of true crabs on Earth, and nearly all of them scuttle sideways. That quirky gait is so ...

This important study probes the long-standing failure to resolve evolutionary relationships between the classical "spiralian" taxa - i.e., annelids, molluscs, brachiopods, platyhelminths and ...

Evolution seems to follow a script more often than expected. Researchers found that distantly related butterflies and moths ...

Found just a little over 400 kilometers (250 miles) off the coast of Mozambique, the island of Madagascar is not only the ...

New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...