Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Carcinization is the separate, five-time evolution of crabs. Parallel evolution isn’t unheard of by any means, but crabs have done it a lot. Their ...

Animals have evolved crab-like bodies at least five times throughout history, a process known as carcinization.

CoV-2 variants now spread less efficiently in animals, lowering concerns that animal reservoirs could generate new variants ...

During the first few years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the virus SARS-CoV-2 was detected in an increasing number of non-human animal species. This ...