In the darkest corners of the planet, where the light of the Sun never touches, eerie glows can yet be found, illuminating ...

Half a billion years ago, the oceans were filled with life that looked more like aliens than the marine animals we know today. Now, researchers have uncovered the fossil of an unusual creature that ...

A new study has reconstructed anacondas that lived in what’s now Venezuela 12 million years ago. The fossil vertebrae reveal ...

South Africa is well known for its fossil heritage, a record of plants and animals that tells us what the world was like long ...

About 500 million years ago, the Grand Canyon was a great sea, and among the creatures it harbored was a newly discovered type of penis worm, armed with many rings of teeth. Penis worms are marine ...

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A newly identified sponge group called Vilesida is giving scientists a clearer view of animal origins, linking sponges with ...

Animal life seemed to explode into a wide variety of new forms in the Cambrian period. Sun et al. (2002). National Science Review. via Wikipedia under CC By 4.0 Sometime before 520 million years ago, ...

“This is a surprising result because we expected to find the ancient anacondas were seven or eight meters [23 to 26 feet] ...

Vera Korasidis received funding from the University of Melbourne Elizabeth and Vernon Puzey Fellowship Award. Scott Wing's fieldwork was supported by the Roland W. Brown fund of the Department of ...