An international team of researchers discovered a new specimen called Quaestio simpsonorum—a pancake-shaped creature that ...

As the site of Earth's oldest fossil animals, the Ediacara biota, the national park is being considered for UNESCO World ...

All modern multicellular life — all life that any of us regularly see — is made of cells with a knack for ...

Researchers in Finnmark, Norway’s northernmost county, might also have found the answer to what happened to the first ...

Scientists discover a 555-million-year-old creature that could move on its own. That was a big deal back then.

In his seminal work of popular geology called Basin and Range, John McPhee first pinned the concept of deep time down on ...

The 550-million-year-old Quaestio simpsonorum is the first fossil to show a definitive left-right asymmetry, an important ...

Meteorite impacts helped create Earth’s oceans and continents. They sparked life’s evolution through changes in the ...

Complex carbon-based molecules crucial to life on Earth originated somewhere in space, but we didn't know where. Now, huge ...

For Caetano-Anolles, co-evolution from a single common ancestor seems to be the most likely origin of viruses and bacteria.

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