A mysterious 420-million-year-old ancient life form challenges evolution, defying classification as plant, animal or fungus.

Scientists settle a major evolutionary mystery as new research reveals the comb jelly, not the sea sponge, was the first ...

Biologists have long drawn the animal family tree with a hazy base, unsure which creature first split from the common ancestor that gave rise to everything from jellyfish to humans. Now, a new genomic ...

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology today announced the release of a new online tool for studying biodiversity and the ...

Bridgerton returns for another exhilarating season, reigniting the flames of passion and unveiling the evolution of the ...

A newly identified tiny dinosaur, Foskeia pelendonum, is shaking up long-held ideas about how plant-eating dinosaurs evolved. Though fully grown adults were remarkably small and lightweight, their ...

In a quiet freshwater pond in Ibaraki Prefecture near Tokyo, researchers have pulled from the water a microscopic giant that ...

Corals may look still, but they follow a daily sleep cycle. New research shows why corals rest at night while their microbes ...

Scientists have discovered which animal was the first to branch off from our collective common ancestor. For years, debate had raged over whether the first to diverge was the sea sponge or the comb ...

Lurking among them is a “giant” virus, a genetic behemoth that blurs the line between the living and the inanimate. When this ...

A new way of analysing fossils has revealed more about animals and environments of ancient times, when humans were evolving.

Skin Republic’s owner, Grace Camacho, had always been that friend — the one whose vanity cabinet looked like a miniature ...