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

With eyes like searchlights, a mouth of razor-sharp plates, and grasping appendages ready to snatch anything in reach, this ...

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

In a quiet part of what is now South Australia, more than half a billion years ago, life was locked in battle. The ocean ...

About 540 million years ago, our planet suddenly erupted with life, filling our oceans with a diversity of complex life. This is known as the Cambrian ...

Scientists discovered complex life may have started 1.5 billion years earlier than previously thought thanks to phosphorus.

Scientists say these are all markers of animal consciousness, a sign that animals, from Labrador retrievers to cuttlefish to ...

Horatio Alger is the largest needs-based scholarship organization in the United States. This year, it will award $17.4 million for higher education, military or technical training to disadvantaged U.S ...