Cephalochordates (amphioxus or lancelets) are invertebrate chordates that diverged first in the chordate lineage leading to the vertebrates. Thus, their genomes can help reveal the genetic basis of ...

The lancelets, also known as amphioxi, comprise some thirty-two species of fish-like marine chordates with a global distribution in shallow temperate and tropical seas, usually found half-buried in ...

A fossil with eyes on stalks and a clawed trunk, the Tully monster has defied classification for over 70 years—and still has scientists scratching their heads. Museum staff, including Eugene S.

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

Beneath the waves, there are strange, almost alien creatures that raise questions about the evolution of life on Earth and our own earliest origins. The answers might be hiding in tunicates. Tunicates ...

I had to go to Wikipedia to find out how old it is (300 million-ish years) since the flingin' flangin' article didn't say. I was thinking it might have been a pre-Cambrian oddity that died out, like ...

Many of us are returning to work or school after spending time with relatives over the summer period. Sometimes we can be left wondering how on earth we are related to some of these people with whom ...

A colonial animal which was among the first to develop an exoskeleton may have been discovered. Fossils which could represent the earliest known hard-bodied bryozoan were discovered in Nevada, USA, ...

Jenny Graves receives funding from the Australian Research Council. If you look at cells from a human or other mammal under a microscope, you’ll see big fat molecular complexes called chromosomes that ...