A key question that remains in biology and biophysics is how three-dimensional tissue shapes emerge during animal development. Research teams have now found a mechanism by which tissues can be ...

From a Hercules beetle tough natural armor to a sea anemone’s soft fluid-filled body, nature boasts a variety of skeletons. A circa-1910 x-ray photograph of pot-bellied seahorses shows their ...

Theories about how animals became multicellular are shifting as researchers find greater complexity in our single-celled ancestors. From one came many. Some 700 million years ago, a single cell gave ...