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

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

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

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

Bat boxes originally meant to keep the small mammals warm during the winter months could just as easily become their deathbeds during the summer. Researchers from the University of New England did a ...

The brain of a 233-million-year-old ancestor of the first flying reptiles has been reconstructed in a bid to work out how ...

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 ...

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

Human intervention plays a big role in the success of ecological recovery, but sometimes, nature still does it better. A recently published study in the Journal of Applied Ecology calculated the rates ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, the first animals to crawl onto land were strict meat-eaters, even as plants had already taken over the landscape. Now scientists have uncovered a ...

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