During these waves of mass extinction, most vertebrate survivors were confined to refugia, or isolated biodiversity hotspots ...

Some 445 million years ago, life on Earth was forever changed. During the geological blink of an eye, glaciers formed over ...

The oldest fossilised remains of complex animals appear suddenly in the fossil record, and as if from nowhere, in rocks that ...

During a geological blink of an eye, glaciers formed over the supercontinent Gondwana, drying out many of the vast, shallow ...

In a new Science Advances study, researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) have now proved that ...

Charles Darwin worried that the fossil record looked strangely abrupt, with complex animals appearing in a geological instant ...

The towering colossus resembles both a soaring bird and a human with arms spread wide. Faces adorn its front and back. In a word, it is “monstrous.” ...

A cavity in the middle of the rockhead poacher’s skull might be used like a maraca to produce sound, new research suggests.

Residues on arrow tips found in South Africa hint at how far back in history humans have been using poison for survival.

About 445 million years ago, Earth nearly wiped out life in the oceans. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

Andy questions the motive regarding the emergence of “Industrial AI” and a fusion reactor startup at this year’s Consumer ...