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Placozoa are among the simplest animals in the world. They were initially discovered living on the walls of aquariums in a ...

Most animals move through their habitats focused on survival rather than construction. They eat, dig, travel, and reproduce ...

Scientists have analysed for the first time the amount by which human activity forces animals to alter their movements. What's surprising is that episodic activity - like hunting, oil pipeline ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet still gives rise to a kaleidoscope of different cell types and tissues. A ...