Some 80 million years ago, the late Cretaceous oceans were patrolled by 17-meter mosasaurs, long-necked plesiosaurs, and ...

Oscar-nominated director explores a real-time ecological collapse caused by a behavioral pattern of sexual violence by male ...

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

BEIJING -- A team of Chinese scientists has announced the discovery of a new fossil lungfish species in Southwest China's Yunnan province, offering important insights into a crucial phase of early ...

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 ...

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

Unknown Giant Once Dominated Land 400 Million Years Ago ...

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, ...

The emergence of four-legged animals known as tetrapods was a key step in the evolution of many species today – including humans. Our new discovery, published today in Nature, details ancient fossil ...

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction -- and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role, 'groundbreaking' new fossil research reveals. The discovery ...

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 ...