Until now, there was a conflict in the field of paleontology. Genetic analysis of how fast traits mutated and evolved ...

Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatures that ...

Our study suggests that our eyes descend from a worm-like ancestor that was roaming the oceans 600 million years ago. The ...

Around 540 million years ago, the ocean erupted with complex life: Creatures rapidly transformed from simple, soft-bodied, ...

A fossil bed in China containing animals up to 554 million years old suggests that we may have to reconsider the idea that ...

The transition from water to land is a question that still intrigues scientists. Those ancient organisms would have needed to adapt to several new challenges to life out of water. So, how did they do ...

Animals that adapt behaviorally may evolve physically more slowly, showing resilience rather than weakness in changing ...

In most narratives, the story of evolution is the story of organisms emerging from the ocean and eventually populating the land. But for some species that evolution also involved a return trip. Dozens ...

Newfound fossils from China suggest that complex animals were around millions of years earlier than thought, among them ...

Speculative evolution takes real science and pushes it further. Imagining creatures that could exist under different ...

Alien creatures may feel like pure fiction, but some of their most disturbing traits already exist in nature. Parasitic lifeforms, genetic manipulation, and extreme survival strategies can be found on ...