The earliest known animal to show evidence of an asymmetrical body lived over half a billion years ago in what is now the Australian outback, a new study reports. The 555 million-year-old creature ...

Quaestio simpsonorum is characterized by its distinctive pancake-like shape and a unique question mark-shaped ridge on its ...

After I came across a wonderful blog post on asymmetrical aircraft, Paul Johns pointed out that the wrybill is an asymmetrical bird, and Dean Bullen suggested a list of the Top 10 such animals ...

Based on their analysis, scientists said the earliest ancestors of almost all modern animals, including fish, were “most likely” capable of moving with some kind of proto-asymmetric gait 472 ...

A tug-of-war between the two sides of the brain causes it to become asymmetrical, according to research published in the journal Neuron. Asymmetry in the brain is thought to be important to enable ...

A recent study on how many animal species show left-handedness. How many exactly show handedness has been investigated in a recent study, just published in the scientific journal Laterality ...

Humans are asymmetric animals. Early in our embryonic development, the heart turns to the left. The liver develops on the right. The left and right lungs have distinct structure. There are certain ...

Asymmetric cell division during animal development Juergen A. Knoblich 1 Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology volume 2 , pages 11–20 ( 2001 ) Cite this article ...

The earliest known animal to show evidence of an asymmetrical body lived over half a billion years ago in what is now the Australian outback, a new study reports.