adding evidence to the idea that asteroids likely delivered the building blocks of life to our planet early in its history. The samples are also providing a window into understanding what kind of ...

A stunning fossil discovery in South Australia has provided a groundbreaking glimpse into one of evolution’s greatest mysteries. A 555-million-year-old worm-like organism, Uncus dzaugisi, has ...

Incredibly, the story of how you are related to all of those species––and millions upon millions more that have gone extinct over the 3.5-billion-year history of life on Earth––can be ...

How is it that whole groups of animals have simultaneously died out? Paleontologists are returning to an earlier answer: natural catastrophe. The catastrophes they visualize, however, are not ...

Sheep have been intertwined with human livelihoods for over 11,000 years. As well as meat, their domestication led to humans ...

The findings open the door to using the massive amount of structural data being generated by tools like AlphaFold 2 and help open new windows into the ancient history of life on Earth. The three ...

Our research team has published a chemical analysis of those samples, providing insight into how some of the ingredients for ...