From butterflies to blue whales, corals and worms, Earth is home to an incredible diversity of animals. How all of these ...

Trove of fossils discovered in Canada sheds light on "when life first became large, complex and unmistakenly animal." ...

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Microscopic squiggles found in 890-million-year-old Canadian reef rocks may represent the oldest animal body fossils, ...

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Stored in an open-air warehouse in tropical Darwin, Australia, are dozens of trays containing cylindrical cores of rock. They are from drill holes bored hundreds of meters below the surface by mineral ...

Canadian deep-sea fossils push the origin of animal sex and movement back 567 million years, rewriting early evolutionary ...

A spectacular dinosaur discovery in Spain is giving scientists a rare new look inside the world of stegosaurs.

Reptiles have been growing armor in their skin on and off for hundreds of millions of years, but scientists never fully ...

The findings suggest that their famous lateral movement evolved just once. It may have helped the animals rapidly spread and ...

Evolutionary biologists are uncovering genomic mechanisms that allow populations to adapt quickly to different, hyperlocal ...

Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen says a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy to the ...