Jonathan the tortoise, the world's longest-living known land animal, remains alive despite claims of his death spreading on ...

A remarkable fossil discovery in southwest China is rewriting the story of how complex animal life began, showing that many key animal groups appeared millions of years earlier than scientists once ...

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Until now, there was a conflict in the field of paleontology. Genetic analysis of how fast traits mutated and evolved ...

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Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatures that ...

The most striking finds were fossils thought to be the oldest known deuterostomes — the broad biological group that includes ...

The world’s oceans are home to an incredible range of life, from massive predators to small, unusual creatures that thrive in ...

Scientists have discovered fossils showing that complex animals existed millions of years before the Cambrian explosion, reshaping the timeline of life on Earth. The finds reveal a strange, diverse ...

The Greenland shark can live for centuries in near darkness, and for a long time scientists assumed its vision must be poor ...