“The sea slug Elysia chlorotica is a small, unassuming creature that performs a remarkable feat: It eats algae and steals its ...

A world-first tool is tracking Australia's progress in sequencing the full genomes—or genetic blueprints—of the country's 250 ...

Constructing the tree of life for parasitic barnacles and their relatives This image shows the lifecycle of y-larvae from ...

In the long history of life on Earth, one of the biggest turning points came when our distant ancestors stood tall—literally.

Half a billion years ago, a strange sea-dwelling creature called Mollisonia symmetrica may have paved the way for modern ...

A world-first study led by Museums Victoria Research Institute has revealed that beneath the cold, dark, pressurized world of ...

Finely preserved brain features in a tiny marine arthropod fossil suggest that arachnids – spiders and their close kin – may ...

"No matter what we do in nature, there will be winners and losers, but we are seeing a lot of losers." Scientists issue dire warning that 'half the tree of life' is dangerously close to extinction: ...

A fossilized brain from a 500-million-year-old sea creature shows unexpected spider-like features, hinting that spiders and their kin may have evolved in the ocean—not on land.

As demand for palm oil has increased, so has scientific interest—particularly in palm’s tocotrienols, with potential benefits ...

Protein remnants in fossil enamel reveal new ways to study evolution. These molecules stretch our view of molecular ...