A new Nature Communications study has tracked these lulls in cassiopea jellyfish, which belong to a 500 million year-old ...
About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...
The discovery shows that ancient vertebrates had a far more complex visual system than previously thought.
New fossil evidence from China suggests that some of our vertebrate ancestors had four eyes. The study, published in Nature, ...
Ancient fossils reveal the oldest known vertebrates had four eyes. Remarkably preserved fossil specimens show they could see ...
In a new study published in Kidney International, researchers report that drugs known as SGLT2 inhibitors prevented ...
The preservation of fossils of some of the oldest known vertebrates is so impressive that palaeontologists can not only count their eyes, but determine how they worked. The findings demonstrate that ...
A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems. In the aftermath, jawed vertebrates gained an unexpected edge by surviving ...
Ever wondered why you won't find kangaroos outside Australia? It all started with massive climate change millions of years ...
A paper published last year in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface described a feather as a masterpiece of engineering, one comprising nine orders of magnitude, from the nanoscale to the meter ...
A Greenland shark swimming through the North Atlantic today may have been alive before the modern world existed. Researchers ...
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.