"This book was originally published as an issue of Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society B; Biological sciences (volume 363; number 1496) but has been materially changed and updated"--Title ...

To understand the origins of multicelled life, researchers are studying a motley assortment of simpler animal relatives. The commonalities they’re unearthing offer a trove of clues about our mutual ...

Birds are the most diverse land vertebrate on the planet, and now scientists have constructed a complete evolutionary tree of the 11,000 or so known species. This data came from hundreds of studies ...

That’s the literal translation of the term Dinosauria, coined by Sir Richard Owen in the 19th century to describe the colossal bones early paleontologists were unearthing. For a long time, the name ...

Copenhagen-based artist Jeppe Knudsen Ringsted merges science, design and cartography in Mappa Animalia, a visual project that reimagines the evolutionary relationships of animals as detailed map-like ...

Implications for Understanding Animal Evolution This discovery challenges traditional views of animal evolution, which often placed sponges at the base of the tree due to their simplicity. Unlike ...