Imagine plunging into the depths of the ocean and coming face to face with a creature that glides through the water with ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

Convergent evolution occurs when organisms that aren’t closely related ... hundreds of millions of years before dolphins appeared. This tells us that these animals experienced similar conditions and ...

Innovations can happen throughout an animal’s biology, whether in new genes and their ... But similar innovations can evolve multiple times independently — a phenomenon known as convergent evolution — ...

This is evidence that quite separate, independent episodes of molecular evolution occurred, with the same functional results. This is a dramatic example of convergent evolution, when organisms ...

Carcinization is a captivating type of convergent evolution where five different groups of crustaceans have separately evolved to have crab-like body structures. Evolutionary ...

Could elephants be the first non-primate animal model for self-domestication ... providing important insights into convergent evolution." ...

A genomic study of gut microbes during antibiotic use finds selective sweeps in a DNA gyrase gene that drive resistance.