Award winning duo James S. A. Corey show humanity’s struggle with staggering alien power in their latest installment of the ...

If you trace the animal family tree back through the fossil record, the trail usually goes cold about 539 million years ago. Before this boundary—the start of the famous Cambrian explosion—multicelled ...

Revisiting Plato’s Atlantis, McGirr turns his focus to the Manta bag, originally introduced in that collection. Now ...

In these science fiction books, extraterrestrial beings are sympathetic, horrifying and everything in between.

Unusually well-preserved fossils have provided the earliest known evidence of a land vertebrate that could pump air in and ...

Genomic analysis reveals squid and cuttlefish evolved in deep oceans, survived mass extinction in refuges, and later rapidly diversified, following a “long fuse” evolutionary pattern.

Animal life began in aquatic environments more than 600 million years ago. Around 500 million years ago, during the Cambrian ...

A decline in ancient megafauna in the Middle East coincided with a shift towards smaller, lighter toolkits in the ...

Two fish fossils found in China have given us more insight into what bony fish looked like before separate lineages diverged.

“It turns out the world’s most famous octopus fossil was never an octopus at all,” Clements says in a statement. “It was a ...

Between 280 and 200 million years ago, a group of animals evolved which would eventually give rise to mammals, including ...

Stromatolites—and their close relatives, microbial mats—could be mistaken for what seems like a bunch of old dark rocks. But ...