What we can learn from watching 100,000 animals in unbelievable detail—from space

By monitoring the movement, health, and environmental conditions of thousands of animals at once, Project ICARUS hopes to ...

Ancient Sponges May Be Earth’s First Animals, New MIT Evidence Shows

MIT researchers traced chemical fossils in ancient rocks back to the ancestors of today’s demosponges. A team of geochemists ...

Introducing a new way to track animals in the deep blue

For generations, flapper skate was mislabelled as common skate. It was only in 2010 that the common skate was shown, ...

Fern stems reveal secrets of evolution: How constraints in development can lead to new forms

There are few forms of the botanical world as readily identifiable as fern leaves. These often large, lacy fronds lend ...