Ancient fossils from South China reveal the earliest bony fishes and shed new light on how jaws, teeth, and key vertebrate features evolved before the major fish lineages diverged.

Scientists call for a major acceleration in coral assisted evolution research to help reefs cope with rapidly warming oceans. The study, published today (30 March), was led by Dr. Adriana Humanes, ...

Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants ...

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

What are humanity’s fundamental motives, our most important goals? New work points to an interesting consensus among young ...

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

Frequent burn exposure may have driven human genetic adaptations that improve healing but worsen severe injury outcomes.

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

A remarkable assemblage of fossils from China is revealing that animal life diversified in Earth's primordial seas millions ...

Why do some species live for only weeks while others survive for centuries? Researchers at the Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) in Jena have developed AEGIS, a freely ...