A Rhoomba vacuum might mimic a hungry lifeform, but researchers have found ancient fossils of one of Earth's first animals, ...

Life on Earth looks good ... the very first traces of life consist of microbial bacteria lacking a nucleus, while it’s widely accepted that animal organisms began more recently at about 635 ...

Today it represents something quite different: a set of extraordinary clues, recently reinterpreted, to one of the deepest and most puzzling mysteries of life on Earth. After burbling along for ...

The biologist had just come from the first floor ... oldest animals on Earth — quite possibly a sister to all other animals in the tree of life, so “they provide a really unique opportunity ...

dramatically. It was the time of the Cambrian Explosion, an eruption of life when Earth’s very first animals began appearing in the fossil record — the ancestors of all major animal groups ...

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

Over 390 million years ago, the ancestors of modern land animals said, “Feet before fins,” and took their first steps on earth ... ever before into one of life’s greatest evolutionary ...

From 4.6 billion years ago when the Earth was red hot, the timeline illustrates the evolution of the first life forms through ... How have animal skeletons adapted? videoHow have animal skeletons ...

The first creatures ... all the animals depending on that ice for hunting, resting, reproducing, and other key life activities lose the platform on which their existence depends. At the other end of ...

The Moon affects life on Earth in three main ways According to Tom, there are three main ways in which the Moon impacts on life: time, tides and light. 'For many animals, particularly birds, the Moon ...