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.

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

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 ...

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

Everything has a beginning, and a new study finds that the start of life on Earth arrived in the form of melted asteroids.

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

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