A bizarre, cyclops-like creature from nearly 600 million years ago may hold the key to how your eyes—and even your sleep ...

A pair of fossilized, eel-like fish found just south of Glasgow has provided what scientists are calling the earliest known evidence of advanced, camera-like eyes in vertebrates. Dating back 443 ...

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A study by a group of researchers at the University of Kentucky in collaboration with scientists in four other countries has been published in Nature. Their study is titled "The hagfish genome and the ...

After losing its original eyes, one of our distant ancestors may have done what evolution does best: tinkered with what was available, reshaping a single central visual organ into two new eyes. That’s ...

Researchers report that ancient viruses may be to thank for myelin -- and, by extension, our large, complex brains. The team found that a retrovirus-derived genetic element or 'retrotransposon' is ...

Even Charles Darwin was puzzled by the evolution of the vertebrate eye. New research suggests that it traces back to a cyclopean invertebrate with a single eye atop the head. By Carl Zimmer Look at ...

Systematic archaeological survey and excavations in the Three Gorges region, South China over the past two decades has led to the discovery of a number of important hominin fossils and Paleolithic ...

Introductory -- Primitive Jawless Vertebrates -- Archaic Gnathostomes -- Sharklike Fishes -- Bony Fishes -- Amphibians -- Stem Reptiles -- Varied Reptilian Types ...