Blind Mexican cavefish became active in light while surface fish reacted to darkness, revealing how evolution rewired brains.

Ancient deep-sea organisms suggest movement, sexual reproduction, and complex animal life began earlier than previously thought.

Exceptionally preserved fossils from China reveal that bryozoans were already thriving during the Cambrian explosion.

Deep oceans contain microbes with yet-to-be-discovered properties that could drive future innovations in biotechnology.

A new study, published July 6, 2026, in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that two of the best-known trends in ...

The time has come to reconsider an outdated understanding of human evolution: it was not a single breakthrough that propelled Homo sapiens into the “human age,” but rather a gradual, nonlinear process ...

What makes something alive? We simply don't know, but synthetic biologists are a step closer to providing an answer thanks to ...

Hundreds of hominin fossils reveal that human body size remained stable for ages before a sharp increase in early members of ...

Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the planet. On Iran, Trump is committing the cardinal sin from the 'Art of the ...

Over 300 million years ago, a minnow-sized fish died and fell to the bottom of a prehistoric swamp near the village of Trawden, Lancashire, in northwest England. The remains of this tiny fish—known as ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that feeds, grows and replicates like a natural cell, a ...