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 ...
To this day, more than 7,000 groups of genes can be traced back to the last common ancestor of bilaterians, according to a study of 20 different bilaterian species including humans, sharks ...
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.