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.

Until now, there was a conflict in the field of paleontology. Genetic analysis of how fast traits mutated and evolved ...

Paleorex is back on Bored Panda with his detailed, science-based creatures, showing us how animals like big cats, birds, and reptiles might evolve in the future. In this article, we’re featuring even ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Quick Take The discovery of the sea sponge order Vilesida and its unique sterols supports the hypothesis that animals may have originated 100 million years earlier than previously expected. Ancient ...

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

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

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