A fossil bed in China containing animals up to 554 million years old suggests that we may have to reconsider the idea that ...

Until now, there was a conflict in the field of paleontology. Genetic analysis of how fast traits mutated and evolved ...

Animals that adapt behaviorally may evolve physically more slowly, showing resilience rather than weakness in changing ...

Newfound fossils from China suggest that complex animals were around millions of years earlier than thought, among them ...

The most striking finds were fossils thought to be the oldest known deuterostomes — the broad biological group that includes ...

When the environment changes dramatically, animals from mollusks to crows can make big changes in their behavior that enable ...

A fossil assemblage from China’s Yunnan province suggests animal life diversified in the Ediacaran Period earlier than ...

The transition from water to land is a question that still intrigues scientists. Those ancient organisms would have needed to ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters) - A remarkable assemblage of fossils from China is revealing that animal life ...

The human ability to cook may seem ordinary, but it marks one of the most important evolutionary turning points in our ...

A new study reveals how squid and cuttlefish began in the deep sea and survived Earth’s biggest extinction to thrive ...

Sphen and Magic, two male Gentoo penguins, recently made headlines when they ‘adopted’ an egg. Gentoos are closely related to Adélie penguins, the species Levick first observed in 1911. After the two ...