Until now, the earliest dated origin of bioluminescence in animals was thought to be around 267 million years ago in small marine crustaceans called ostracods. But for a trait that is literally ...

The sperm dates back 100 million years and belongs to an ancient ostracod, a relative of millimeter-long crustaceans still alive today. It’s almost 50 million years older than the previously ...

Until now, the earliest dated origin of the phenomenon was thought to be around 267 million years ago in small marine crustaceans called ostracods. Experts say it has independently evolved at ...