A broad survey of choanoflagellates revises the evolutionary history of the Shaker family of voltage-gated K + channels in animals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024; 121 (30 ...

The coelacanth is known as a "living fossil" because its anatomy has changed little in the last 65 million years. Despite ...

A Nonlinear Evolutionary Journey The groundbreaking research, led by Dr. Robert Brocklehurst and conducted at Harvard University, suggests that the path to upright posture in mammals was far from ...

Matthew Wills, Professor of Evolutionary Paleobiology at the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath, said: “It turns out that we’ve got lots of our evolutionary trees wrong.

Scientists uncovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China with unexpectedly modern traits they believe could rewrite the evolutionary history of birds. The recently discovered ...

A new study has rewritten the conventionally understood evolutionary history of certain proteins critical for electrical signaling in the nervous system. The study, led by Penn State researchers ...