A tiny marine organism, Solarion arienae, offers a rare window into early eukaryotic evolution, prompting scientists to ...

Researchers have dated vertebrae from a massive prehistoric shark thought to have ruled the waves off northern Australia back to further in the Cretaceous period than was previously known. This ...

The ancestor of today’s great white shark was thought to be about eight metres long, the authors of a paper published in Communications Biology said.

In Part 2 of his story, Benita Albert tells of astronomer Bob Benjamin's career, including teaching and now being a NASA consultant.

Many carbon-rich meteorites contain ingredients commonly found in life, but no evidence of life itself. James St. John, CC BY When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx ...

Understanding the evolution of insect mating behavior is essential for explaining how early insects adapted to life on land.

Exploring the scientific and historical perspectives behind this classic question, from evolution to biology, to understand ...

Environmental change doesn’t affect evolution in a single, predictable way. In large-scale computer simulations, scientists ...

The origins of consciousness date back about 540 million years ago, when animal bodies became more complex. Feelings like ...

An international collaboration study reveals how evolution and locomotion patterns, such as bipedalism, shaped bone ...