Scientists have long been confused about ‘missing’ animal fossils.
- Jodrell Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, UCL
Conheça os coanoflagelados - os primos microscópicos dos animais.
Meet the choanoflagellates - the microscopic cousins of animals.
Why human testicles are so different to chimpanzees’ and gorillas’.
Scientists used to believe that a group containing starfish and sea urchin were the closest relatives of vertebrates like humans. But new research challenges this idea.
Over the past ten years, scientists have argued about what the earliest animal really was.
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