One of Earth’s earliest mass extinctions wiped out most ocean life during a sudden global ice age. From the ruins, jawed vertebrates survived, diversified, and transformed the course of evolution.
They found that the shrews’ brain cells lose water but crucially do not die, meaning that the animals retain their brain ...
The long-living sharks aren't as blind as once thought and have DNA repair mechanisms that may help prevent their vision from ...
About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...
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The first vertebrates to reach the moon were Soviet tortoises, Zond 5, the 1968 lunar flyby, and the secret biology mission
In September 1968, the Soviet Union’s Zond 5 mission looped around the Moon and returned safely to Earth with two tortoises and a hidden biological payload, a quiet first in the lunar race. What came ...
Greenland sharks may have a DNA repair mechanism that maintains their vision for centuries, seemingly preventing retinal ...
When oxygen disappears, most fish suffocate. This one ferments its own metabolism and waits months for spring beneath frozen ...
Mudskippers break the rules of fish biology by breathing through their skin, walking on their fins and thriving on land where ...
The conservation of genome regulatory elements over long periods of evolution is not limited to vertebrates, as previously ...
Your ability to notice what matters visually comes from an ancient brain system over 500 million years old.
A massive ice age wiped out ocean life 445 million years ago, reshaping ecosystems and setting the stage for jawed fish ...
A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.
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