One of Earth’s earliest mass extinctions wiped out most ocean life during a sudden global ice age. From the ruins, jawed vertebrates survived, diversified, and transformed the course of evolution.

About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

A devastating ice age wiped out most marine life, yet new research reveals how this ancient disaster unexpectedly paved the ...

W hat female mosquitoes choose to feed on has a bearing on human health, since they transmit pathogens from one host to ...

The unexpected observation of a cow using a broom to scratch herself isn't necessarily surprising, but it expands our ...

When oxygen disappears, most fish suffocate. This one ferments its own metabolism and waits months for spring beneath frozen ...

MicroRNAs, whose discovery was recognized with the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, are central regulators of gene ...

Our bones did not begin deep inside the body. They started in the skin, not long after the first complex animals took shape.

Field photos courtesy Cetacean Ecology, Behaviour and Evolution Lab (CEBEL), Flinders University. Whales, dolphins and other ...

Over the past half century, researchers have established that birds evolved from dinosaurs: specifically, the theropods, the ...

Scientists found that some mosquitoes really are targeting humans more than other food sources, but it could be a matter of ...

New Delhi, A study in Brazil's Atlantic Forest has found that ongoing biodiversity loss may be causing mosquitoes that once ...