Credit: Gaorong Li and Xiaodong Wang New fossils hint that the roots of complex animal life stretch further back than ...

Twenty-four species of deep-sea crustaceans that had never been documented before have been formally described from the ...

Paleontologist Matias Motta and colleagues have described a new bird-like raptor, Kank australis, from Late Cretaceous rocks ...

The unpleasant season is demonstrably over. Many animals at Leipzig Zoo have made the most of the months when we’d all rather ...

As a PhD student in the 1920s, she moved a lump of cells from embryos of one newt species into another. The transplanted ...

Typically, the information encoded in DNA allows organisms to develop, function, and pass traits across generations. Yet DNA alone does not explain how genes are switched on and off in different cells ...

The new species were found as deep as 16,000 feet below sea level ...

Lionfish, mitten crabs and “sea vomit.” Meet eight marine species who inadvertently moved to new territory and took the ...

But to comparative biologist Armita Manafzadeh, joints are where the action is. As she sees it, almost every animal with a ...

THE second edition of Dr. F. A. Bather's guide will be even more useful than the first. It serves the student, who may never enter the British Museum galleries, as an introduction to invertebrate ...

A hundred years since microbiologists first discovered the invertebrate immune system, they are just beginning to understand its complexity. Scientists recently discovered that invertebrates have ...

Invertebrate evolutionary and ecological research stands at the forefront of efforts to understand biological responses to rapid environmental change. As ...