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Over the past half century, researchers have established that birds evolved from dinosaurs: specifically, the theropods, the ...

A genomic atlas of Nematostella vectensis reveals how primitive animals created multiple cell types millions of years ago, ...

For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – ...

Our bones did not begin deep inside the body. They started in the skin, not long after the first complex animals took shape.

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A new study posits that same-sex sexual behavior developed to help primates in complex social groups ease tension, reduce ...

A uniquely preserved ichthyosaur from the Pliensbachian period helps resolve when a major evolutionary shift occurred among ...

Two citizens engaged in community patrols detail how ICE smashed windows, arrested them and promised money in exchange for ...

The U.S. media is happy to launder White House sci-fi lies about sonic weapons, if they get to use phrases like "vomiting ...