Some 445 million years ago, life on Earth was forever changed. During the geological blink of an eye, glaciers formed over ...
During these waves of mass extinction, most vertebrate survivors were confined to refugia, or isolated biodiversity hotspots ...
With copper-blue blood prized by modern medicine and a body plan older than dinosaurs, the horseshoe crab reveals how ancient ...
This 30-million-year-long gap is actually rather helpful to Darwin. It means that there was plenty of time for the ancestor ...
The oldest fossilised remains of complex animals appear suddenly in the fossil record, and as if from nowhere, in rocks that ...
New species are being discovered faster than ever before - at a rate of more than 16,000 every year, suggests a new study.
Around 16,000 new species are described each year, but most animals and plants are listed as threatened as soon as they are ...
In a new Science Advances study, researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) have now proved that ...
A fossil smaller than a human fingernail has revealed a complete ancient brain, turning a speck of stone into a detailed map ...
When Aécio Luiz was younger, finding wild beehives was routine in his rural Afro-Brazilian community of Córrego Narciso. A ...
A new study shows scientists are discovering new species faster than ever, revealing Earth still holds vast unknown biodiversity.