A treasure trove of exceptionally preserved early animals from more than half a billion years ago has been discovered in the ...

These eight plants changed the course of human history, laying the groundwork for farming and civilization itself. From ...

The evolution of some of the earliest complex animals on our planet may have been spurred on by other, simpler early animals. These simple marine animals first evolved around 560 million years ago ...

Fossils from Newfoundland sea beds give a clue to how early animal communities formed. By Kate Baggaley. Published May 17, 2022 7:00 PM EDT ...

Simple animal life may have existed in Earth’s oceans 890 million years ago, according to new research. New fossils belonging to ancient sponges may be the earliest known belonging to an animal ...

EARLY ANIMALS DETHRONED As seen with special imaging called X-ray microtomography, this 570-million-year-old gray blob turns out not to be an early animal embryo fossil, ...

Evidence suggests that microbes existed on Earth as far back as 3.7 billion years ago, a billion years after the planet formed. Animal remains, however, don't appear in the fossil record until 600 ...

If the structures do represent fossilized sponges, this would suggest that early animals emerged before the Neoproterozoic oxygenation event, which occurred some 800 to 540 million years ago (just ...

The diversification of early animals may have been suffocated by a lack of oxygen. A new analysis of ancient rocks offers a glimpse of conditions in the millions of years leading up to the ...

In the early decades of spaceflight, many animals reached space — and fame — even after the notable "firsts" were all claimed. Gordo, a squirrel monkey, launched 600 miles high on Dec. 13, 1958.

For hundreds of millions of years, pancake-shaped animals about the size of a sharp pencil tip have been roving the seas with an appetite for tasty microbes and algae.They’re called placozoans ...