Studying one of the simplest animals, Stanford's Prakash Lab uncovered how it folds itself into complex shapes—revealing new insights into a fundamental cellular feature and the origins of tissue ...

Placozoa are among the simplest animals in the world. They were initially discovered living on the walls of aquariums in a European laboratory in the 1880s, and are thought to live naturally ...

This tiny, simple animal, the Myxozoans, evolved from something bigger and more complex. We tend to think that evolution only goes in one direction— toward getting bigger and more advanced. But that’s ...