New analysis of 407-million-year-old Prototaxites fossils from Scotland's Rhynie chert suggests they may belong to an entirely extinct eukaryotic lineage, unlike any known fungi. The discovery ...

Flinders University researchers have taken a revealing look inside the head of one of the first animals to crawl from the ...

Flinders University researchers have taken a revealing look inside the head of one of the first animals to crawl from the water to live on land more than 380 million years ago.   Using high-tech ...

There is strong scientific consensus surrounding this story and it is informed by multiple converging lines of evidence.

The planet's trees have seen plenty of history pass by their trunks. In fact, they began to populate Earth 385 million years ago, toward the end of the Devonian period. Considered living historical ...

I first read Lulu Miller’s Why Fish Don’t Exist in 2024. Interspersed with her personal exploration of finding purpose, ...

I first read Lulu Miller’s Why Fish Don’t Exist in 2024. Interspersed with her personal exploration of finding purpose, ...

PLANTATION, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Chewy, Inc. (NYSE: CHWY) (“Chewy”), today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Modern Animal, Inc. (“Modern Animal”), a technology-forward ...

A sweeping genetic study of over 150 species reveals that life’s move from water to land was not a single story, but a series ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatures ...

Madeleine May is an investigative producer at CBS News based in Washington, D.C. She previously covered politics for VICE News and reported on organized crime and corruption for OCCRP. She covers ...

More than 539 million years ago, soft, clarinet-shaped animals anchored themselves to the seafloor on disc-shaped bases, swaying alongside stalked animals resembling worms and baskets. These ...