Every mammal, every fish, every vertebrate (creatures that have a spine) has two eyes. It’s been that way for millions and ...

Paleontologists have identified thousands of animal species that lived soon after the Cambrian explosion ended ...

Now, a breakthrough by Chinese researchers has filled this gap by discovering a top-tier soft-bodied fossil deposit in Hunan ...

Something extraordinary has happened, even if we haven’t fully realized it yet: algorithms are now capable of solving ...

Megalodon usually gets all the attention when it comes to sea monsters, but ancient oceans were full of predators just as ...

Warning: This is a report of the inquest into the death of Darren Meah-Moore in Cardiff and contains evidence that may be ...

Hundreds of hours of CCTV have helped police piece together the final movements of a drag queen who ended up dead beneath ...

Scientists have unearthed in southern China fossils of a multitude of marine creatures dating to more than a half billion years ago, showing a deep-water ecosystem thriving in the aftermath of the ...

A recent paper in Nature details what scientists found at the Huayuan biota: Here we report the Huayuan biota — a lower ...

Around 540 million years ago, Earth's biosphere underwent a pivotal transformation, shifting from a microbe-dominated world ...

Using the fossil record and modern cold-blooded critters, paleontologist Kelsey Jenkins recreates the hearing capabilities of ...

A bizarre fossil called Prototaxites, which was the largest life-form on land 400 million years ago, may have been a completely unknown form of multicellular life, according to a new study.