Researchers create a genome database of earthworms that goes back 200 million years, and find out how their evolution was ...

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

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 ...

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

The species was named Sphyragnathus tyche, combining Greek words “sphyra,” meaning hammer and “gnathus,” meaning jaw for the ...

These insects resemble tiny pieces of popcorn as they move about. Discover more about the waxy nymphs of the flatid ...

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

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 ...

Scientists reconstructed 500 million years of evolutionary history to reveal which came first: colorful signals or the color ...

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

Two new studies add to the evidence that human activity, from fishing to urban development, is driving the evolution of wild ...