Understanding how organisms measure and respond to space and time at a physical and chemical level is at the heart of a mechanistic understanding of life. As physical beings, individual cells and ...

Animals have been walking, crawling, flying, and otherwise moving around Earth for a very long time. Many millions of years ago, however, there were no animals as we know them. In fact, there were ...

In future research, our team will use fossils to search even further back in time. Organisms other than egg-laying dinosaurs reinforced their tissues with calcite. For example, marine arthropods ...

Traces of organisms detected in sediments from 7.5 kilometers below the ocean surface reveal how organisms living in the deep sea are engineering their own environments. Analyses of sediment cores ...

The term "phenotype" refers to the observable physical properties of an organism; these include the organism's appearance, development, and behavior. An organism's phenotype is determined by its ...