Dr Peter Verheyen, Sola Society and Academy at Vienna University, discusses intriguing research and discoveries related to ...

A new study reveals how a remarkable group of plants on the Galápagos Islands developed their diverse leaf shapes—offering ...

Fossil evidence suggests there were real ‘Kraken’ – finned octopuses who fed on large animals at the top of the food chain – in ancient Cretaceous oce.

Discoveries of molecules in space that suggest extraterrestrial life are exciting, but they need to be taken with a grain of ...

How did the earliest life on Earth build complex biological machinery with so few tools? A new study explores how the ...

The discovery of a collection of about 700 fossils known as the Jiangchuan Biota gives scientists a better understanding of ...

"This experiment's never been run before on another world," said Amy Williams, an astrobiologist working on the Curiosity ...

Professor Simon Conway Morris, Emeritus Professor of Evolutionary Paleobiology in the Department of Earth Sciences and Fellow of St John's College ...

When UW professor David Catling from the department of Earth and space sciences (ESS) was named a 2026 geochemistry fellow, ...

Professor Simon Conway Morris, a groundbreaking paleontologist at the University of Cambridge, has been awarded the 2026 ...

New fossil discovery reveals 535 million-year-old worms, annelids, that were already crawling and swimming, reshaping early ...

Rare 450-million-year-old fossil, Paleocanna tentaculum, that provides a clearer link between ancient cnidarians and modern ...