The very first cells obtained their energy from geochemical reactions. LMU researchers have now managed to recreate this ...

A new study suggests the platypus and echidna — the only egg-laying mammals — had a water-dwelling ancestor. The finding ...

Professor Emily Jane McTavish and colleagues at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have mapped the evolution of every known bird ...

Imagine a creature so strange, so utterly unlike anything alive today, that even the world’s top scientists had no idea which ...

Over billions of years, the universe has transformed from a simpler state into an intricate cosmic web, but new research ...

In a remarkable discovery off the rugged coastline of California, researchers have encountered a living coelacanth, a ...