A rice farm in southern Brazil was just found to be home to the fossil of one of the missing links between the ground-based ...

Study suggests dinosaurs originated in the Amazon, but their fossils are missing. They started as small, bipedal creatures in ...

Credit: California Academy of Sciences/Cover Images The rare and elusive Mount Lyell shrew has been photographed for the ...

Some biologists speculate that animals will get smaller with global warming to reduce heat stress. While this may be true of warm-blooded animals, what about exotherms like insects? Thanks to a ...

The Davis Odd Fellows lodge hosts its first blood drive of the year on Tuesday, Feb. 11, at the Odd Fellows Hall, 415 Second ...

Three college students found a way to take photos of the Mt. Lyell shrew, which has never been photographed in the 100 years ...

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At the time, hundreds of millions of years ago, “the earliest vertebrates [were] sort of reptile-like creatures,” and “mammals came out of that, as did dinosaurs and birds and amphibians.” ...

By studying the genomes of all three living lungfish lineages, scientists hope to uncover the molecular and developmental processes that enabled early vertebrates to conquer terrestrial environments.

Now you can buy what may be the first commercially available book written in DNA. Today, Asimov Press debuted an anthology of biotechnology essays and science fiction stories encoded in strands of ...

Cassady Olson, first author on the paper ... Olson explains that “there are many gross similarities [between the ANC and vertebrates’ spinal cords]—there is a cell body region, a neuropil ...