The missing link in the mystery turned out to be an event called the Cambrian explosion. It was only after it that living ...

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

Earth’s first sponges may have been ghostly, soft-bodied pioneers—ancient animals that evolved long before their skeletons ...

Growing up in rural India, my grandmother would feed the village dog half a chapati and a bowl of milk each afternoon, surely ...

Our bones did not begin deep inside the body. They started in the skin , not long after the first complex animals took shape.Author Roy Ebel PhD ...

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 ...

Elon Musk and Twitter continue to defend Grok generating sexualized deepfakes and CSAM, but some countries are enforcing bans ...

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

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 ...

Cotard, a small limestone cave that has been hidden for tens of thousands of years. The Loire Valley is famous for its ...

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