Ancient deep-sea organisms suggest movement, sexual reproduction, and complex animal life began earlier than previously thought.

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Exceptionally preserved fossils from China reveal that bryozoans were already thriving during the Cambrian explosion.

Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...

A new study suggests Earth may have been sending tiny hitchhikers to Venus for billions of years. Researchers found that asteroid impacts could launch microbes into space, where some might survive the ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

Citizen science data from the popular platform iNaturalist has helped uncover the evolution of parental guarding behavior in harvestmen spiders, as shown in research published in the Zoological ...