What defining changes in the genetic code took place after we separated from our most recent ancestor? Looking at the places where all living humans share a novel genetic signature but the ...
The octopus is another non-human creature with demonstrable intelligence and ancient roots. A cephalopod fossil named Syllipsimopodi bideni was discovered in 2022, dating this ancestor of the ...
The new National Geographic docuseries, "Secrets of the Octopus," takes viewers underwater ... While octopuses may seem completely different from humans, they are actually quite similar.
A series of whole genome and gene duplication events that go back hundreds of millions of years have laid the foundations for tissue-specific gene expression, according to a new study. The 'copy-paste ...