Series of paleomaps visualising the geographical and chronological aspects of the main events during the evolutionary history of the freshwater fish family Nemacheilidae across Eurasia. A red star ...

when the first animals crawled out of the sea onto land. Some details remain fuzzy and under investigation. But we know for certain that this back-to-the-water evolution did occur, thanks to a ...

One of the most important milestones in the evolution of life began some 400 million years ago, when the first animals made their way from water onto land. At that time, known as the Devonian ...

Then, some time later, there were their descendants, the early animals: multicelled creatures ... seeking as yet unknown microbes from aquatic sites around the world. So far, he’s identified ...

We've found they mixed up the water and enabled resources to spread more widely—potentially encouraging more evolution ... and that animals can affect water flow in ways that influence the ...

Then, some time later, there were their descendants, the early animals: multicelled creatures, still swimming, eating, reproducing, but doing it all as teams of cells. Exactly what happened ...

A surprise discovery in a remote Australian desert region has given us new clues into the evolution of complex animal life, ...

Migrating animals can bring food and contaminants to their destination. An assessment of Pacific salmon migrations from 1976 ...

He then began to consider what the discovery revealed about the evolution of noise-making animals. Fossils often ... period when most species lived under water. That contrasts to recent work ...

Also known as water bears and moss piglets ... Yet scientists have long marveled at the resilience of these microscopic ...

The gene that kick off starch digestion potentially duplicated for the first time long before farming.