A new study theorizes that evolution ticks at different speeds, especially when a big group of organisms first appears.

Jellyfish and sea anemones exhibit sleep-like states without brains. Scientists say this discovery rewrites evolution’s timeline, showing sleep may predate complex nervous systems entirely.

Despite multiple mass extinctions, the frilled shark has managed to thrive for 100 million years. Today, it remains one of ...

Things changed in August 2025. After several children were mauled by street dogs, the country’s supreme court briefly ordered ...

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Between roughly 600,000 and one million years ago, Africa’s fossil record goes strangely quiet. Genetic evidence suggests ...

Fossils reveal that giant predatory sharks existed 15 million years before megalodon and were already top predators in Cretaceous seas.

In the very young universe, just a fraction of its current age, astronomers have stumbled on a set of objects that refuse to ...

Disney World has filed for demolition work at Animal Kingdom's iconic Tree of Life. This has caused concern among fans. The permit's short expiry date suggests swift action. Meanwhile, DinoLand is set ...

A tiny fossil fish from Alberta is forcing scientists to rethink a story that has sat quietly in textbooks for decades. It is ...

Could we - that is, Homo sapiens - and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on ...

A fascinating archaeological discovery in South Africa has revealed that humans were using sophisticated poisoned arrows 60,000 years ago, far earlier than previously documented. Chemical analysis of ...