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.

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

The exceptionally well-preserved fossils shine a light on the mass extinction that brought an end to the “Biological Big Bang.” ...

A new way of analysing fossils has revealed more about animals and environments of ancient times, when humans were evolving.

Now, using the world's largest radio telescope project, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ( ALMA ), ...

The findings represent the oldest complete set of genetic information from this bacterial group and shed light on its ...

While Thrinaxodon liorhinus didn’t yet have the sophisticated hearing equipment of modern mammals, it shows that eardrums began evolving much earlier than assumed.

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

A large comparative study of primate teeth shows that grooves once linked to ancient human tooth-picking can form naturally, while some common modern dental problems appear uniquely human.

At its core, the National Salute symbolises the authority of the Constitution and the supremacy of the people in a democratic ...

Ahead of a new essay prize, the great historian discusses the return of anti-Semitism, Donald Trump, and the fate of the BBC ...