Professor Lars Schmitz joins WIRED to guide us through a giant tree of life mapping the evolution of eyes in the animal ...

Professor Lars Schmitz spoke with Wired about the wide variety of shapes and forms that animal eyes take and the reasons for ...

Thus, understanding the evolutionary history of living species amounts to understanding where on the tree of life these species' distinctive traits arose. Moreover, phylogenetic trees serve as ...

All animal evolution for the ... providing fuel for movement and the evolution of more complex body structures. Others propose that an extinction of life just before the Cambrian opened up ...

produced the most intense burst of evolution ever known. The Cambrian Explosion saw an incredible diversity of life emerge, including many major animal groups alive today. Among them were the ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered that mammals began adapting to terrestrial lifestyles millions of ...

The discovery of a billion-year-old fossil in Scotland offers exciting new insight into animal evolution, BC researcher says Loch ... inland lake shifts the focus on the first forms of early life from ...

Scientists have discovered traces of life more than half ... the oldest fossils of complex animals – at least that is what all current fossil records would suggest.’ The fossils found date back to a ...