Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

Tuesday evening, Laramie County residents met with local elected officials to have candid conversations about the state ...

A new study theorizes that evolution ticks at different speeds, especially when a big group of organisms first appears.

In Norway, the Havila Polaris is sailing on liquefied biogas and battery power, making it the world’s first climate-neutral ...

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

These "total monsters of fishes" are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest ...

Sponges are among Earth's most ancient animals, but exactly when they evolved has long puzzled scientists. Genetic ...

I’d like to make the case that our current obscene levels of inequality are an important but neglected contributing factor to ...

Scientists refine the timeline of sponge origins, showing soft-bodied ancestors likely evolved later than some chemical ...

Recently, a video showing peoplecollecting marine fossils from the summit of a mountain went viral, leaving many puzzled.

Small Modular Reactors are pivoting the nuclear industry from custom-built energy cathedrals to factory-built energy ...

Earth’s first sponges may have been ghostly, soft-bodied pioneers—ancient animals that evolved long before their skeletons ...