The remarkable discovery of animal life beneath the seafloor shows that life finds a way even in the most extreme environments, potentially boosting hopes for finding life beyond Earth. Reading time 4 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient animal history is extremely difficult to reconstruct, for a number of reasons. Some of the earliest creatures in existence ...

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 ...

The sudden appearance of complex animals has led scientists to argue that animals must have a “hidden history”, a period in ...

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 ...

A remarkable fossil discovery in southwest China is rewriting the story of how complex animal life began, showing that many key animal groups appeared millions of years earlier than scientists once ...

Learn how new research challenges long-held assumptions about animal evolution and suggests that the earliest animals may ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Reconstruction of the early Cambrian seafloor, depicting colonies of Protomelission gatehousei and Dayingomelission hexaclitia ...

Sat, March 28, 2026 at 10:30 AM UTC 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, ...