Cold-adapted animals started to evolve 2.6 million years ago when the permanent ice at the poles became more prevalent. There followed a time when the continental ice sheets expanded and contracted ...

Fossilized tracks in Australia reveal amniotes evolved 35-40 million years earlier than thought, pushing tetrapod origins back to the Devonian period.

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and UCL have analyzed ancient DNA from Borrelia recurrentis, a type of bacteria ...

Investigating ancient cyanobacterial timekeeping systems sheds light on the evolution of circadian rhythms and their ...

The Tyrannosaurus rex, once thought to have migrated from Asia, may have actually evolved in North America, according to new ...

For generations, the Big Bang has stood as the definitive origin story of the universe — an explosive moment from which time, ...