Scientists found that adult bristleworm eyes grow continuously thanks to a rim of neural stem cells similar to those in ...

Light-sensitive stem cells let bristleworms grow their eyes for life, shedding new light on how vision evolved.

The monster is back! Well, not alive, but back in the scientific spotlight. In 1958 amateur fossil hunter Francis Tully found some strange fossils at the famous Mazon Creek site, about 15 miles ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have identified a brain-like cluster of neurons in sea urchin larvae, traditionally ...

World's oldest vertebrate brain found in 319-million-year-old fossil By Michael Irving February 05, 2023 The fossilized skull of a fish, with a penny for scale, contains the oldest preserved brain of ...

Reference genome assemblies provide a map of a species’ DNA sequence and its spatial context—that is, where along the chromosomes a specific piece of DNA sequence can be found. In the past, the ...

A team of herpetologists at the Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz just reported that a tiny frog found only in a hilltop forest in southern Bahia, Brazil, may be the smallest vertebrate in the world ...

Global change is eroding life on earth at an unprecedented rate and scale. Species extinctions have accelerated over the last decades, with the concomitant loss of the functions and services they ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The population dynamics of invasive plants are influenced by positive and negative associations formed with members of the fauna present in ...

Danish scientists believe they've discovered the oldest living vertebrate: a Greenland shark lurking in the frigid North Atlantic and Arctic waters that could be up to 512 years old, according to the ...