other scientists were already trying to explain the diversity of life on Earth. One such scientist was Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, a French researcher who proposed a different theory of evolution 50 ...

Fossils from Scotland’s East Kirkton Quarry are now dated to 346 million years ago, offering rare insight into vertebrate ...

(CNN) — The story ... evolution from water to land. The transition requires “substantial changes to the musculoskeletal system,” Wilson said, including new positioning of the limbs for life ...

Eoin Murphy takes us on a whistle-stop tour of life on ... fossils on Earth dating back to between 3.7 and 3.8bn years ago. However, a 2024 publication in Nature Ecology and Evolution estimates ...

Daniel Brady Mills research primarily concerns the co-evolution of the Proterozoic biosphere (Earth’s ‘middle age,’ 2.5-0.541 billion years ago) and eukaryotic life. Jason Wright studies ...

The evolution of humans on Earth may not be entirely exceptional. That is because intelligent life is likely to form if certain planetary conditions are met, a new study suggests. This idea ...

In “Infinite Life: The Revolutionary Story of Eggs, Evolution, and Life on Earth,” Mr. Howard makes a case for eggs so over easy that I can’t resist serving it back to you: Each egg on Earth ...

The story of two of the strangest animals on the planet just got a little stranger, thanks to clues revealed by a lone fossil specimen that scientists now say represents a long-extinct ancestor.