An international team of scientists has made a discovery that could reshape our understanding of how global biodiversity ...

And what can life's timeline here say about the possibility of other technologically advanced lifeforms in the universe? One hypothesis of our evolutionary history is the "hard steps" model.

While Henri Bergson did not point his intellectual abilities toward politics, lesser men who were unscrupulous commandeered ...

The ancient coelacanth, which has existed for some 419 million years, never stopped evolving despite its reputation as a ...

Bioluminescence, the ability of living organisms to emit light, is a fascinating phenomenon observed in various life forms, ...

Hang Sun's group from Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences has demonstrated the ecological and ...

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction -- and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role, 'groundbreaking' new fossil research reveals. The discovery ...

Eggs have an evolutionary depth to them that animal-lovers don’t consider enough. And so, ‘Infinite Life’ is a biography, of sorts; a true history of the egg—the most unifying, resilient ...

This newly redesigned space at the Natural History Museum in London traces 540 million years of the past while creating an ...

“We calculated the rates of evolution across their 410 million-year history. This revealed that ... wiped out approximately 75% of all life on Earth, including all of the non-avian (bird-like ...