Humans Got Their Flexible and Sturdy Joints From Fishes, Evidence Found in 400 Million-Year-Old Jawed Fish Evolution has ...

A cave in Israel reveals traces of coexistence between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens that differs significantly from what was ...

The researchers also studied fossils of extinct fishes dating back almost 400 million years and saw evidence that some of the oldest jawed fishes had bones with joint cavities for articulated ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments ...

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(Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology/Handout via Xinhua) SHENYANG, March 12 (Xinhua) -- Chinese and Brazilian researchers have unearthed a nearly complete fossilized skeleton of ...

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Among the newly identified species is a pygmy pipehorse, a 4-centimeter (1.6-inch) master of camouflage found in Sodwana Bay, off the coast of South Africa in the Indian Ocean. It is the first ...

Ocean Census, the world’s largest collaborative effort to accelerate the discovery of marine life, reveals 866 newly-found marine species A global collaborative effort led by the Nippon ...

With an estimated 200 billion trillion stars in the observable universe, the existence of other technological species is highly likely, potentially even within our Milky Way galaxy. Join our Space ...

“At that moment, I knew immediately that the deep ocean must be a much more thriving habitat than we had imagined.” ...