Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists probing the bottom of the Pacific Ocean made a surprising discovery: animals living underneath the seafloor in an area ...
A new fossil discovery in Canada is rewriting part of the story of how animal life began. The remains of creatures that lived ...
Six animals pulled from the deep ocean were so biologically distinct that researchers had to create entirely new taxonomic ...
Ancient deep-sea organisms suggest movement, sexual reproduction, and complex animal life began earlier than previously thought.
A completely new order of marine sponges has been found by researchers at the Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University. The sponge order, named Vilesida, produces substances that could be used in drug ...
Ancient animal history is extremely difficult to reconstruct, for a number of reasons. Some of the earliest creatures in existence were soft-bodied and microscopic, leaving behind very little evidence ...
Tiny honeycomb-like colonies from southern China have opened a long-running gap in the story of animal life. For decades, bryozoans seemed oddly absent from the Cambrian explosion, the burst of ...