Teeth are like tiny biological time capsules. They tell stories about ancient diets and environments long after their owners ...

Cyanobacteria—ancient microbes that oxygenated Earth and made complex life possible—are still revealing surprises billions of ...

Evolution isn’t a single, straightforward process – it works in several distinct ways. From species splitting apart over time ...

Elaborate life could be much older on Earth than previously thought. A team of researchers has uncovered a fossil site in ...

Humans carry a surprising relic from deep evolutionary history, one that traces back to a tiny, one-eyed ancestor that lived ...

A new study shows that early humans shifted from hunting giants to smaller animals, shaping tools, survival, and intelligence ...

At first sight, stromatolites may seem unremarkable. The stromatolite formations found in Shark Bay, Western Australia, do ...

The nanozymes hypothesis proposes that mineral nanoparticles drove chemical evolution on early Earth, helping transform inert matter into life through catalytic and environmental processes.

A remarkable fossil discovery in southwest China is rewriting the story of how complex animal life began, showing that many key animal groups appeared millions of years earlier than scientists once ...

A fossil assemblage from Yunnan province in southwest China is reshaping scientific understanding of how animal life graduated from simple, soft-bodied forms to the complex body plans that dominate ...

Life on Earth has a long and fascinating history, but scientists still uncover surprises that change what we know. A recent fossil discovery in China has revealed that complex animal life began ...

When Shigeru Miyamoto first created the little Italian plumber climbing the skyscrapers in 1981's Donkey Kong, I doubt he imagined the pixelated fella would end up fully realized on the big screen one ...