In Brief Published: 16 July 2015 Bacterial evolution An intriguing new bacterial phylum Naomi Attar Nature Reviews Microbiology 13, 459 (2015) Cite this article ...

The Cambrian Explosion is a landmark moment in the history of life on Earth when many of the major groups of animals first ...

Today, echinoderms are represented by roughly 7,600 species and can be found in every ocean on Earth. One of their defining characteristics is their five-fold symmetry. To put this into context, there ...

A 500-million-year-old fossil from Morocco, discovered by Natural History Museum scientists, is offering extraordinary new insights into one of evolution's most puzzling transformations: how ...

Cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC) is an extension of ACC. In addition to measuring the distance to a predecessor, a vehicle can also exchange information with a predecessor by wireless ...

New Zealand’s marine biodiversity checklist has been updated, representing an increase of 3,630 known living species since the turn of the century.

Starfish. Image via Unsplash Starfish (or sea stars) possess one of the most impressive regenerative abilities in the animal kingdom. Many species can regrow an entire body from just a single arm and ...