Animal life, emerging nearly 600 million years ago, showcases incredible diversity and unique traits. Unlike plants, animals ...

How life arose remains a looming question in science that researchers are seeking to answer by studying the features shared among life today. Everything alive is made up of cells, and what made the ...

Mono Lake, tucked in the Eastern Sierra, is no ordinary lake. Its eerie tufa towers and teeming swarms of brine shrimp and ...

Understanding the origin of the building block of all animal and plant life may lead to more insights about life on Earth and ...

Very little is known about choanoflagellates, and there are interesting biological phenomena that we can only gain insight ...

For most of human history, the overall population is believed to have remained quite low. But since the early 1800s, the ...

Around 591 million years ago, Earth’s nearly vanished magnetic field triggered a surge in oxygen that paved the way for ...