No animal alive today is ‘primitive’ – why are so many still labeled that way?

All species alive today, from chimpanzees to bacteria, are cousins that each have equally long lineages, rather than ...

Why some animals are still labelled as primitive though none exist

We humans have long viewed ourselves as the pinnacle of evolution. People label other species as "primitive" or "ancient" and ...
SpaceNews

Primitive microbe offers model for evolution of animals

A microorganism whose evolutionary roots can be traced to the era of the first multicellular animals may provide a glimpse of how single-celled organisms made a critical evolutionary leap. In ...
Reuters

Arctic fossil shows how seals went from land to sea

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Scientists in Canada's Arctic have discovered the fossil of a previously unknown web-footed carnivore that helps explain how seals developed from land-based mammals, a member of the ...
The Anniston Star

Primitive camping and animals in the forest

It is 1976 in Mrs.Prickett’s first grade class at the long-closed Williams Junior High School (located near Pleasant Valley High School in Calhoun County). During nap time, she reads stories about ...
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Neoplasia of invertebrate and primitive vertebrate animals

Schedule and abstracts of Symposium. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001~!158167~!0#focus ...