The first complex animals to have ever existed arose during the Ediacaran ... Furthermore, they can give us an insight into Earth’s geology during that time. The organisms that survived to start the ...

Have you ever wondered if crabs and lobsters felt pain or fear as they were being boiled alive before making it onto your ...

A study of fossilized feces and vomit attempts to piece together why dinosaurs were so evolutionarily successful.

Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the Antarctic blue whale, the world's largest animal ... if they were separate populations. This study is the first time that historical ...

Fossil evidence reveals that molluscs may have been among the first animals to spend time out of the water, overturning the popular theory that arthropods were the undisputed early land pioneers. The ...

“Using machine learning and computer vision algorithms, we could observe the animals and decode their actions, from a hoverfly attempting to make a left turn during flight to a fiddler crab dodging a ...

The first signs of its presence on Earth have been dated at ... responsible for embryonic development were already present before the emergence of animal life, or that C. perkinsii evolved ...

Within a diverse animal kingdom, where agility and speed often take center stage, a delightful minority of creatures gracefully earns the title of the world’s slowest animals. While the majority ...

IR Stone/Shutterstock.com Around 40,000 years ago, another hominid ruled the animal kingdom roost: Neanderthals! In 1829, archeologists first discovered fossils of ... You may have thought the Stark ...

Before humans went to space, there were concerns about their ability to survive long periods of weightlessness ... Four years later, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit earth. “Without animal ...