A remarkable assemblage of fossils from China is revealing that animal life diversified in Earth’s primordial seas millions of years earlier than previously known, with an array of forms including ...

Scientists now believe consciousness is not exclusive to humans. Research suggests it evolved gradually in animals, allowing ...

When the environment changes dramatically, animals from mollusks to crows can make big changes in their behavior that enable them to survive. For example, marmots and ground squirrels in California ...

A sweeping genetic study of over 150 species reveals that life’s move from water to land was not a single story, but a series ...

The most striking finds were fossils thought to be the oldest known deuterostomes — the broad biological group that includes ...

How and why the Cambrian explosion occurred has been the subject of debate ever since fossils of this remarkable event were ...

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

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 ...

Sphen and Magic, two male Gentoo penguins, recently made headlines when they ‘adopted’ an egg. Gentoos are closely related to Adélie penguins, the species Levick first observed in 1911. After the two ...

A reconstruction of the Jiangchuan biota, an assemblage of early animals represented by fossils from a newly discovered fossil site in China?s Yunnan Province dating to about 554 to 539 million years ...