The human body is a machine whose many parts—from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and ...

In a stunning revelation, scientists have unearthed shark fossils dating back 325 million years in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky.

A team of researchers from the University of Adelaide, in collaboration with cavers, has uncovered a large number of eyeless, ...

Researchers of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences have reconstructed the likely appearance of an extinct group of comb jellies, one of the oldest known animal phyla. Their findings ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

In 2015, two members of the Blue Beach Fossil Museum in Nova Scotia found a long, curved fossil jaw, bristling with teeth.

The shift from lizard-like sprawl to upright walking in mammals wasn’t a smooth climb up the evolutionary ladder. Instead, it ...

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

Researchers Trace Evolutionary Trajectory of Starfish's Unique Symmetry Through a 500 Million-Year-Old Fossil The star shape ...