The research is published in the journal Science Advances. The origins of many major groups of organisms in the fossil record seem to lie shrouded in obscurity. Indeed, one of the most famous ...

a group of researchers sought to describe the importance of all major groups of organisms in the global wildlife trade and called for more research on neglected groups. "To us, it is evident that ...

"Accelerated rates may characterize the early evolution of many groups of organisms," said Michal Kowalewski, professor of geobiology at Virginia Tech. To test whether other major branches of life ...

These organisms are not necessarily closely related. However, certain features unite them, while distinguishing them from the other major group of photosynthetic organisms: the land plants.

What Darwin was bemoaning was the lack of “transitional” fossils – those with anatomical features intermediate between two major groups of organisms. At the time, such fossils were conceived ...

And then there's the molecular evidence, which suggests that many of the major groups of organisms that appear in the Cambrian had probably been separated for a significant amount of time in order ...

"This study demonstrates the dynamic nature of evolutionary change within major groups of organisms," said Melanie Hopkins, one of the co-authors on the study and an assistant curator in the ...

The striking differences in both species richness and morphological diversity that exist between major groups of organisms constitute a ubiquitous yet unexplained pattern in the large-scale ...

All major groups of Ordovician organisms were affected — trilobites, brachiopods and bryozoans died off in large proportions. But, while subsequent mass extinctions selected broad categories of ...

The research is published in the journal Science Advances. The origins of many major groups of organisms in the fossil record seem to lie shrouded in obscurity. Indeed, one of the most famous ...

Based on such concerns, a group of researchers sought to describe the importance of all major groups of organisms in the global wildlife trade and called for more research on neglected groups. Their ...