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 ...

For years, a mysterious fossil specimen defied categorization, until one paleontologist made a surprising discovery.

Horatio Alger is the largest needs-based scholarship organization in the United States. This year, it will award $17.4 ...

The first complex animals to have ever existed arose during ... Furthermore, they can give us an insight into Earth’s geology during that time. The organisms that survived to start the Cambrian ...

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 ...

The longevity biotech industry revolves around the goal of increasing the period of life that a person spends in good ... This technology has been tested in animal models, and there is evidence that ...

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

For the first time ... proliferation of early animal ecosystems,” Bicknell said. “It shows the rapid speed at which such phenotypic modifications arose during the Cambrian Explosion event.” ...

Researchers created 3D models of ancient tracks in Oregon’s John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. The study revealed a ...

A team of scientists found prehistoric animal footprints that indicate how creatures behaved in Oregon as far back as 50 ...

Scientists revisited tracks made by a shorebird, a lizard, a cat-like predator and some sort of large herbivore at what is ...