A global catalog shows how creatures across the tree of life balance rigidity with flexibility in remarkably consistent ways ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

Young Earth was a blue planet covered in oceans, much like today. But the atmosphere was a lethal cocktail of gases, with no ...

Sponges are among Earth's most ancient animals, but exactly when they evolved has long puzzled scientists. Genetic information from living sponges, as well as chemical signals from ancient rocks, ...

With copper-blue blood prized by modern medicine and a body plan older than dinosaurs, the horseshoe crab reveals how ancient ...

This 30-million-year-long gap is actually rather helpful to Darwin. It means that there was plenty of time for the ancestor ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

Scientists have discovered that orchids depend on fungi living in decaying wood to sprout and survive their earliest stages. This hidden partnership reveals a new carbon pathway linking deadwood to ...

Life insurance can help your family replace lost income, pay off large debts and allow you to leave a financial legacy after you die. But it can be complicated. There are lots of different policy ...

A big difference between humans and other apes is the ability to stride easily on two feet. A new analysis of fossil bones shows that adaptations for bipedal walking go back 7 million years.