Earth’s history is filled with incredible milestones, and the emergence of the first animals is one of the most captivating.

With eyes like searchlights, a mouth of razor-sharp plates, and grasping appendages ready to snatch anything in reach, this ...

For years, a mysterious fossil specimen defied categorization, until one paleontologist made a surprising discovery.

Horatio Alger is the largest needs-based scholarship organization in the United States. This year, it will award $17.4 ...

A new study has found that a region in China’s Turpan-Hami Basin acted as a refugium, or “life oasis”, for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian mass extinction, the most severe biodiversity ...

extinct marine arthropods that date back to a time before animals had backbones and even before there were any plants on land. They were already well diversified as soon as they appeared as part of ...

The longevity biotech industry revolves around the goal of increasing the period of life that a person spends in good ... This technology has been tested in animal models, and there is evidence that ...

In a quiet part of what is now South Australia, more than half a billion years ago, life was locked in battle. The ocean ...

Focused on Cambrian fossils, the study reanimates a species long trapped in the pages of forgotten paleontology.

Scientists revisited tracks made by a shorebird, a lizard, a cat-like predator and some sort of large herbivore at what is ...

The team examined 36 specimens, at the Smithsonian Institution and the Royal Ontario Museum, from the Cambrian Period of the Burgess ... suggesting the animal exited from the front of the body ...