This seems to have solved the mystery of how the starfish got its arms. But it doesn’t necessarily answer the ‘why’. Imran ...

A 500-million-year-old fossil from Morocco, discovered by Natural History Museum scientists, is offering extraordinary new ...

Shell-rich rocks trace a mostly upward climb in ocean life, with each mass extinction slashing both diversity and biomass ...

Learn how starfish got their shape after a complicated evolutionary process, starting with an ancestor that lived 500 million ...

Start your walk from Cardiff Castle and finish at the Caerphilly border, just by the Travellers Rest pub. It’s a great trek ...

A group got the chance to witness sea creatures “pop” from the water for hours off California coast. On June 26, “popcorn” ...

The Cambrian explosion was an extraordinary phenomenon in the evolution of life on the planet that led to the emergence of ...

A new study of ancient fossil trails pushes the origins of complex life deeper into Earth’s history, before the Cambrian Period began.

in what we call a depositional basin. So that's a place where sediment accumulates. and you will never ever turn into a ...

New Mexico geologist and author Magdalena Sandoval Donahue discusses the interesting geology of the Santa Fe National Forest ...

Zooplankton like copepods aren’t just fish food—they’re carbon-hauling powerhouses. By diving deep into the ocean each winter ...

On occasion, it is of vital importance to consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral ...