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Scientists rethink how animals build repeating body parts like fins and limbs

Study reveals that early embryonic cells can switch roles, reshaping what we know about how fins, gills, and other body ...

Fossils from China show complex life evolved millions of years earlier than once thought

Newfound fossils from China suggest that complex animals were around millions of years earlier than thought, among them ...
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel

Brain of first flying reptile’s ancestor rebuilt to figure out how they took flight

The brain of a 233-million-year-old ancestor of the first flying reptiles has been reconstructed in a bid to work out how ...
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Strange fossils suggest complex life emerged millions of years earlier than we thought

Fossils in China show that complex animals existed before the Cambrian explosion, changing our understanding of how life ...
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Researchers make disturbing discovery about structures meant to help animals: 'Could function as death-traps'

Bat boxes originally meant to keep the small mammals warm during the winter months could just as easily become their deathbeds during the summer. Researchers from the University of New England did a ...
Science Daily

This ancient animal was one of the first to eat plants on land

Hundreds of millions of years ago, the first animals to crawl onto land were strict meat-eaters, even as plants had already taken over the landscape. Now scientists have uncovered a 307-million-year ...