Animal life began in aquatic environments more than 600 million years ago. Around 500 million years ago, during the Cambrian ...

Studies show that animals living in urban environments around the world exhibit common sets of behaviors. At the same time, ...

If you trace the animal family tree back through the fossil record, the trail usually goes cold about 539 million years ago.

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 ...

Hundreds of Chinese fossils from the dawn of animal evolution may change how scientists think of this critical period of ...

Learn how newly discovered Ediacaran fossils are pushing the origins of animals back millions of years before the Cambrian ...

Newfound fossils from China suggest that complex animals were around millions of years earlier than thought, among them ...

Scientists have discovered which animal was the first to branch off from our collective common ancestor. For years, debate had raged over whether the first to diverge was the sea sponge or the comb ...

Lifespan diversity across the animal kingdom reveals extraordinary adaptations to survival, reproduction, and environmental change. While humans consider an average life expectancy of around 70 to 80 ...

Legend has it that physicist Ernest Rutherford once dismissed all sciences other than physics as mere “stamp collecting.” (Whether he actually said it is a matter of some debate.) But we now live in ...

Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonised almost all environments on Earth – from hostile ...

A group of scientists from a biotechnology startup known as R3 Bio have created multi-organ biological platforms know as ...