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Published Scientists investigate the evolution of animal developmental mechanisms, show how some of Earth's earliest animals evolved - Scientists Investigate the Evolution of Animal Developmental Mechanisms: How Some of Earth's Earliest Animals Evolved



Lacking bones, brains, and even a complete gut, the body plans of simple animals like sea anemones a ...
Published Super antifreeze in cells: The ability to survive in ice and snow developed in animals far earlier than we thought



More than 400 million years ago, an insect-like animal called the springtail developed a small prote ...
Published Antibiotic consumption and resistance 'two-way street' between animals and humans - Antibiotic Consumption and Resistance: A Two-Way Street Between Animals and Humans



Scientists have demonstrated that, globally, the association between antibiotic consumption and anti...
Published How animals get their stripes and spots



New research helps explain how sharp patterns form on zebras, leopards, tropical fish and other crea...
Published A new pandemic could ride in on animals we eat, researchers warn



Researchers warn the animals we eat could be the gateway for a pandemic in the form of antimicrobial ...
Published Genetically modifying individual cells in animals



Researchers have developed a method that lets them genetically modify each cell differently in anima...
Published 'Mind controlling' parasitic worms are missing genes found in every other animal



Parasitic hairworms manipulate the behavior of their hosts in what's sometimes called 'mind control....
Published With only the pawprints, researchers study elusive bobcat



With DNA recovered from animal tracks, scientists revealed information about the ancestry and microb ...
Published Humans pass more viruses to other animals than we catch from them



Humans pass on more viruses to domestic and wild animals than we catch from them, according to a maj ...
Published Nature and animal emojis don't accurately represent natural biodiversity



The current emoji library doesn't accurately represent the 'tree of life' and the breadth of biodive...
Published Exploring diversity in cell division



Animals and fungi predominantly use two different modes of cell division -- called open and closed m ...
Published Small animals acquire genes from bacteria that can produce antibiotics



A group of small, freshwater animals (bdelloid rotifers) protect themselves from infections using an ...
Published Movement sensors can detect disease in wild boar



Accelerometers reading the behavior of wild boars can pick up when animals are infected with a fatal ...
Published Nasal COVID-19 vaccine halts transmission, animal study finds



A nasal COVID-19 vaccine blocks transmission of the virus, according to an animal study. The finding ...
Published Scales or feathers? It all comes down to a few genes - Scales or Feathers? It All Comes Down to a Few Genes



Scales, spines, feathers and hair are examples of vertebrate skin appendages, which constitute a rem...
Published As the worm turns: New twists in behavioral association theories - As the Worm Turns: New Twists in Behavioral Association Theories


Physicists have developed a dynamical model of animal behavior that may explain some mysteries surro ...
Published Gutless marine worms on a Mediterranean diet: Animals can synthesize phytosterols - Gutless Marine Worms on a Mediterranean Diet: Animals Can Synthesize Phytosterols



Phytosterols are good for your health, but humans and other animals are not able to make them themse ...
Published What did the earliest animals look like? - What Did the Earliest Animals Look Like?



Surprisingly, genome comparisons have failed to resolve a major question in animal evolution: Which ...
Published Win-win in muscle research: Faster results and fewer laboratory animals thanks to new method



To study muscle diseases, scientists rely on the mouse as a model organism. Researchers have now dev...
Published Single-celled protists in the guts of animals thrive without the 'powerhouse of the cell'



Almost all eukaryotic organisms, from plants and animals to fungi, can't survive without mitochondri ...