Shovonlal Roy, the lead researcher, explained that climate change and habitat loss are major factors causing animals to ...

For example, when a ground squirrel sounds an ... Genetic structure clearly influences the evolution of animal sociality. But do genes themselves influence an individual’s altruistic behavior?

This is a good example of what happens when a strong ... Because the survival rate in the wild for these animals is so low, their evolution has happened at a superfast pace: the strays who have ...

All animal evolution for the last half billion years has come from tinkering with these Cambrian body plans. Then, between about 570 and 530 million years ago, another burst of diversification ...

The discovery could be the “missing link” in the evolution of animals, according to the team ... contains two distinct cell types and could be the earliest example of complex multicellularity ever ...