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.
This ancient, leg-bearing snake is rewriting the story of how serpents slithered, and sometimes walked, their way through evolutionary history.
About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...
W hat female mosquitoes choose to feed on has a bearing on human health, since they transmit pathogens from one host to ...
Scientists found that some mosquitoes really are targeting humans more than other food sources, but it could be a matter of ...
When oxygen disappears, most fish suffocate. This one ferments its own metabolism and waits months for spring beneath frozen ...
The conservation of genome regulatory elements over long periods of evolution is not limited to vertebrates, as previously ...
“You see it move its eye,” says Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk, an associate professor at UC Irvine. “The shark is tracking the ...
Your ability to notice what matters visually comes from an ancient brain system over 500 million years old.
A massive ice age wiped out ocean life 445 million years ago, reshaping ecosystems and setting the stage for jawed fish ...
A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.
A mass extinction created the ecological conditions that set the stage for a dramatic shift in marine life.
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