Charles Darwin worried that the fossil record looked strangely abrupt, with complex animals appearing in a geological instant ...

In Earth's fossil record, soft-bodied organisms like jellyfish rarely stand the test of time. What's more, it's hard for any ...

After studying rocks more than 541 million years old, MIT scientists have found new evidence that some of Earth’s first ...

Research to help reduce inflammation in the uterus of livestock animals could help pave the way for developing new drugs to ...

THERE was only one match on Sunday in the Dolgellau & District Pool League, the derby match at the Royal in Barmouth.

What does it take for soft-bodied animals, built to rot not to rock, to persist for 500 million years in the Grand Canyon?

Rare fossils found along the Colorado River 'give us a fuller picture of what life was like during the Cambrian period,' says ...

An unassuming rock layer in the Grand Canyon just exposed a fossil secret that changes everything we thought we knew.

For much of the twentieth century, sharks and large reptiles were assumed to define the upper limits of dental sharpness in ...

The origins of consciousness date back about 540 million years ago, when animal bodies became more complex. Feelings like ...

A team of scientists digging up some of the Earth’s oldest rocks has uncovered new chemical evidence that Earth’s first animals were likely ancestors of the modern sea sponge. The discovery relies on ...

(CNN) — Paleontologists have discovered remarkable fossils in the Grand Canyon that reveal fresh details about the emergence of complex life half a billion years ago. The newfound remains of fauna ...