A newly discovered fossil site in southwest China has transformed our understanding of how complex animal life emerged on ...

A fossil bed in China containing animals up to 554 million years old suggests that we may have to reconsider the idea that ...

From deep growls rolling over savannas to haunting whale songs drifting through the ocean, many species rely on sound to stay ...

R3 Bio has a bold idea for replacing lab animals: genetically-engineered whole organ systems that lack a brain. The long-term ...

Wild animals are not just inhabitants of the natural world. Many also act as natural landscape engineers, reshaping Earth's ...

The complete absence of these creatures in later strata suggests they might have vanished in a mass-extinction event that ...

From whale hearts to giraffe tongues, explore how huge and tiny animal body parts really are, using everyday objects as your ...

Study reveals that early embryonic cells can switch roles, reshaping what we know about how fins, gills, and other body ...

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 ...

Fossils in China show that complex animals existed before the Cambrian explosion, changing our understanding of how life ...

Researchers argue that a newly examined specimen found decades ago in Utah provides new clues to the ancestors of ...

Humans are creatures of rhythms. As far as we know, humans have always sung and always danced. We can recognize a song by its ...