A velvet ant bite like “hot oil from the deep fryer” delivers an array of peptides that inflicts pain on insects and mammals alike.

Among the many fossilized stars is a 26-meter-long Mamenchisaurus jingyanensis, a gigantic herbivore that lived around 150 million years ago and had one of the longest necks of its species. It is ...

After negotiating a steep track, you’ll stumble across the faint Tetrapod imprints ... water to land – a momentous turning point in evolution. They provide the oldest reliably dated evidence ...

This unchecked genomic expansion creates a unique opportunity for scientists to study the effects of transposons on evolution, particularly during critical transitions like the move from water to land ...

The creature was described as having compact, blade-like teeth forming a saw-like cutting edge—features said to be unique among tetrapods. This garnered significant attention, positioning Xenodens as ...

1 In his 2024 book From Sensing to Sentience, 2 psychiatrist-neurologist Todd Feinberg focuses on the evolution of sentience—the subjective “feeling” aspects of consciousness—and its ...

Evolution is the way that living things change over time. The first person who explained how evolution happens was Charles Darwin with his scientific theory of natural selection. Charles Darwin ...