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Four-eyed fossils offer clues to the origins of human vision
A remarkable fossil discovered in southern China has offered scientists a rare glimpse into our distant evolutionary past. The find suggests that some of the earliest vertebrates possessed a feature ...
Learn how increased protein diversity in signaling genes may have helped drive the shift from invertebrates to vertebrates, reshaping how animals with a spine evolved.
Learn how an ancient fish gene was repurposed to shape the anatomy of human hands.
A fish thought to be evolution’s time capsule just surprised scientists. A detailed dissection of the coelacanth — a 400-million-year-old species often called a “living fossil” — revealed that key ...
Apple snails can fully regrow their eyes, and their genes and eye structures are strikingly similar to humans. Scientists mapped the regeneration process and used CRISPR to identify genes, including ...
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Humans are born with tails—but lose them before birth—and scientists still don’t know why we have them at all
Early in pregnancy, something surprising happens. Every human embryo develops a tail. It is not symbolic or imagined. A real ...
Unlike other fishes, many sharks, like this blacktip reef shark, have both large young and live in warm waters. This explains why sharks have brains that overlap in size with those of the warm-blooded ...
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