This internal left-right asymmetry is believed to begin at the very early stage of development -- when a tiny embryo is divided into two parts during a process called gastrulation. This process ...

A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the ...

An international team of scientists led by a recent doctoral graduate from the University of Massachusetts Amherst sheds new ...

Evolution has been fine-tuning life at the molecular level for billions of years. Proteins, the fundamental building blocks of life, have evolved through this process to perform various biological ...

Riley Black’s new book, When the Earth was Green, uses the latest research to envision the ancient worlds of our favorite prehistoric animals.