The investigation suggests that LUCA lived on Earth 4.2 billion years ago and had an immune system that could fight off ...

Research led by the University of Auckland has cast light on the evolutionary origins of one of nature's first motors, which developed 3.5 billion to 4 billion years ago to propel bacteria. Scientists ...

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A Mazon Creek fossil shows a horseshoe crab riddled with pits, likely from microbes or parasites, revealing a ...

Florida was once covered by the ocean. Along its riverbanks, fossils from ancient sea life are still easy to find. This video shows what we discovered and why these areas are so rich in fossils.

Researchers have unearthed South America’s first amber deposits containing ancient insects in an Ecuadorian quarry, offering a rare 112-million-year-old glimpse into life on the supercontinent ...

For the first time, scientists have analyzed metabolism-related molecules from the fossilized bones of animals that lived 1.3 ...

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The Red Sea became a desert about 6.2 million years ago, before a massive flood from the Indian Ocean turned it into a waterway again. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Researchers discovered fossil evidence showing that spionid worms, parasites of modern oysters, were already infecting bivalves 480 million years ago. High-resolution scans revealed their distinctive ...