This work arose and was funded, in part, from a CIB Fellowship awarded to Benjamin Allen by the inter-institutional Centre for Invasion Biology (CIB) Centre of Excellence in South Africa, co-funded ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience.View full ...

Surprisingly, genome comparisons have failed to resolve a major question in animal evolution: Which living animals are the descendants of the earliest animals to evolve in the world's oceans?

All animals are related to each other, but comb jellies — a marine invertebrate found in oceans around the world — are the most distantly related to all other animals, shows a new study in Nature.

Carew is the author of BEASTLY: The 40,000-Year Story of Animals and Us History is all too human—busy with battles, emperors, and land grabs. Yet, it is our relationship with animals that has changed ...

Over 4,000 animal shelters exist throughout the U.S. While many shelters have facilities to house and care for animals, they function independently from large rescue organizations. In many cases, ...