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Scientists are trying to understand how complex life emerged on Earth about 2 billion years ago. Our microbial ancestors could be the key.

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Mollusks appeared 540 million years ago, but almost half the unique traits of this group evolved in the first 96 million ...

Elephant Valley opens at a time when standards of care for the pachyderms has shifted to prioritizing animal and herd ...

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Karthik Sankaranarayanan trained in two quite different scientific subfields as a graduate student and as a postdoctoral ...

The earliest sponges to live on the earth were soft and skeletonless pioneers - rewriting the story of the origin of animal ...