Japanese researchers developed a model to simulate early Earth's atmosphere, revealing how UV radiation and hydrocarbons ...

The clearest picture yet of our “last universal common ancestor” suggests it was a relatively complex organism living 4.2 ...

Nearly every bone of the animal has been recovered, and unlike most pterosaur fossils, this specimen is preserved in three ...

Microbes profoundly impact evolution, shaping traits alongside genes. Holobiont biology highlights how hosts and microbes ...

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a sun-like star, ...

Charles Darwin comes to mind when we think of the theory of evolution. But before Darwin published his groundbreaking work in ...

Earth teases a different origin story for the Xenomorphs, but it won't mess with Ridley Scott's complicated Alien timeline.

Evidence from Colorado suggests glaciers once covered Earth to the equator, supporting the Snowball Earth theory. This ...

Zoologist Professor Tim Coulson suggests that octopuses, with their remarkable intelligence and adaptability, could ...

Marveling at fish that build, speeding wombats and other wonders of the animal world.

The 500-million-year-old primitive fish without bones or teeth has surprisingly advanced anatomical features. “Based on the ...

Assuming intelligent aliens have used AI for thousands or even millions of years, experts think it may have grown to ...