来自英国自然历史博物馆，云南大学等处的研究人员发表了题为“Chelicerate neural ground pattern in a Cambrian great appendage arthropod”的文章，在中国西南地区昆明附近著名的澄江区域，发现了一种3厘米长的动物（一英寸多一点）化石，这种动物具有已知最早的完整的 ...

Butterfly wing patterns have a basic plan to them, which is manipulated by non-coding regulatory DNA to create the diversity of wings seen in different species, according to new research. The study, ...

In remote regions of the Arctic, Antarctica, and the Australian outback, an explorer can trek across bleak, uninhabited landscapes only to suddenly stumble upon ground decorated with weird patterns.

The fundamental structures underlying learning and memory in the brains of invertebrates as different as a fruit fly and an earthworm are remarkably similar, according to neuroscientists. It turns out ...