After losing its original eyes, one of our distant ancestors may have done what evolution does best: tinkered with what was available, reshaping a single central visual organ into two new eyes. That’s ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

Even Charles Darwin was puzzled by the evolution of the vertebrate eye. New research suggests that it traces back to a cyclopean invertebrate with a single eye atop the head. By Carl Zimmer Look at ...

Scientists may have been dramatically undercounting the number of vertebrate species on Earth. A large analysis of more than 300 studies suggests that for every recognized species of fish, bird, ...

Sonselasuchus cedrus, discovered in fossils from Arizona, was a crocodile relative from the Triassic period that grew into an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An unusual discovery was made along Myanmar's coastline on February 18 when a beachgoer spotted dozens of strange marine ...

Guy joined Scientific Data in October 2021. Prior to that he was the Executive Editor for Data at the Royal Society of Chemistry with responsibility for managing chemical databases and setting ...

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Nevertheless he imagined gradation from simple-eyed animals with pigment-coated nerves to ones with eyes of a “high stage of perfection”, such as our own. 11 weirdest, bizarre ...