The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

A great white shark is a masterwork of evolutionary engineering. These beautiful predators glide effortlessly through the ...

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...

Scientists analyzing 443-million-year-old Scottish fossils have uncovered the early evidence that some of the first groups of vertebrates possessed surprisingly advanced eyes and traces of bone, ...

A team of scientists from the University of Manchester have uncovered some of the earliest evidence of advanced, camera-like ...

The accompanying tartar sauce deserves its own paragraph – house-made with just the right balance of creaminess, acidity, and ...

Quick Take Large-body sharks in the Lamniformes family appeared 15 million years earlier than science previously claimed.

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

Venom is one of nature’s most effective (and fascinating) survival tools. Across the world, a wide range of animals have ...

When we say that someone is a “fish out of water,” we sometimes mean to suggest that they are uncomfortable or out of their ...

"She had been in the lab and recognized how to identify fishes, and said that's something valuable that we have to preserve.” ...

One of Earth’s earliest mass extinctions wiped out most ocean life during a sudden global ice age. From the ruins, jawed vertebrates survived, diversified, and transformed the course of evolution.