The Cambrian Explosion was a weird time for the creatures of planet Earth. It was a period of impressive change and growth, ...

New fossil evidence from China suggests that some of our vertebrate ancestors had four eyes. The study, published in Nature, takes a closer look at a structure found in multiple 518 million-year-old ...

V1674 Herculis was a record-breaker. It erupted in the constellation Hercules on June 12, 2021, and skyrocketed to peak ...

Studies looking at how sponges have evolved on a molecular level have suggested that spicules should be present over 700 ...

Levels of molybdenum in soil show that hydrogen sulfide gas wiped out nearly half of all marine life 530 million years ago.

For decades, scientists have puzzled over a significant gap in the fossil record of Earth's earliest animals, with genetic ...