We’re only in the early stages of 2026, and one massive change from last year may have already occurred: there may actually ...

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There may be twice as many vertebrates on the planet as previous estimates claimed, according to a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. That's ...

Learn how a second pair of eyes helped this 518-million-year-old fish evade predators.

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected genetic shift that may explain how animals with backbones first emerged and became so diverse.

Fossils of the prehistoric fish genus myllokunmingiid, more than 518 million years old, reveal that early vertebrates may have had four functional eyes. Researchers found that two large lateral eyes ...

For all its pervasiveness and the efforts to study it, cancer is still somewhat of a mystery. Why do some animals get it at a higher rate than others? This is the question at the heart of Peto's ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. “During our multi-year fieldwork in the Northern Highlands ...

The earliest ancestors of all backboned animals, including humans, may have viewed the world with four eyes, not just two.

Life on our home planet dates back to hundreds of millions of years before the arrival of the dinosaurs. Among the most ...