An innovative study reveals that HRT coordinates the hatching of fish embryos, determining the critical moment for their ...

A new study finds that ocean acidity may have prevented life on Earth from developing for the planet’s first 500 million ...

One might assume that marine fossils are exclusively unearthed in sedimentary coastal or underwater deposits. This is far ...

Humans evolved late in Earth history. While this timing inspired the conclusion that humanlike life is a cosmic improbability ...

An artistic depiction of the Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird, Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean ...

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

How did Earth transform from a hostile, acidic ocean world to one that nurtured life? Scientists at Yale and in Singapore ...

We’re so used to cooking eggs to make them “hard-boiled” that we don’t think about how counter that word is to most of nature ...

There are many reasons to seek out Charles Burnett's long-buried 1999 film, but perhaps primary among them: The rare chance to see Lynn Redgrave, Margot Kidder and James Earl Jones share the screen.

Fossil collectors in Florida have discovered an ancient sinkhole, now at the bottom of a river, which holds the remains of animals rarely seen in the state, including a type of giant armadillo, giant ...