Imagine drifting through a prehistoric sea more than 500 million years ago. The water teems with bizarre creatures, but none ...

Earth’s history is filled with incredible milestones, and the emergence of the first animals is one of the most captivating.

“It shows the rapid speed at which such phenotypic modifications arose during the Cambrian Explosion event.” The findings go beyond just fossils with holes. They help explain how life ...

Focused on Cambrian fossils, the study reanimates a species long trapped in the pages of forgotten paleontology.

36 specimens, present at the Smithsonian Institution and the Royal Ontario Museum, from the Cambrian ... of its life. Arthropods are invertebrate animals with a segmented body, a hard exoskeleton made ...

But the biggest barrier to life on Mars is the lack of a strong magnetic field, which protects against the constant bombardment of ionizing radiation from cosmic rays and solar flares, which can ...

The team examined 36 specimens, at the Smithsonian Institution and the Royal Ontario Museum, from the Cambrian Period of the Burgess Shale of Canada. They photographed the specimens, both wet and ...

Frances Tiafoe opened up about his feelings after losing the 2025 ATP Houston title to compatriot Jenson Brooksby. The 27-year-old congratulated his rival while acknowledging his struggles over ...

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These towering life-forms, known as Prototaxites, appeared around 430 million years ago during the Silurian period, dominating a landscape where early plants barely grew past your ankles.

A new study has found that a region in China’s Turpan-Hami Basin acted as a refugium, or “life oasis”, for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian mass extinction, the most severe biodiversity ...