The octopus, one of Earth’s oddest and most ... on our planet come up with their own different solutions. “Their ancestors mainly lived in the deep. They had a shell, but they lost that ...

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 new National Geographic docuseries, "Secrets of the Octopus," takes viewers underwater ... While octopuses may seem completely different from humans, they are actually quite similar.

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 ...

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 ...