Field-defining discoveries can come from new and unexpected places,” study author Natalia Jagielska told IFLScience.

For over half a billion years, evolution has sculpted the nervous systems of bilaterian animals, equipping them with ...

Many think dinosaurs first emerged on land well south of the equator that now forms part of Argentina and Zimbabwe, but they ...

He added: "The fossil record has such large gaps that it can't be taken at face value." At present, the oldest known dinosaur fossils—which have been found in more southerly loc ...

An international team of scientists has uncovered a fascinating piece of the evolutionary puzzle: how the ventral nerve cord, ...

Modeling dinosaur evolution points researchers to potential fossil discoveries closer to the equator.

A recent study led by researchers from University College London (UCL) suggests that the remains of the earliest dinosaurs ...

Based on the history of life here on earth, at least one prominent paleontologist thinks that complex life in the cosmos is likely very rare.

An international team of scientists has uncovered a fascinating piece of the evolutionary puzzle: how the ventral nerve cord, a key component of the central nervous system, evolved in ecdysozoan ...

The early Earth was an extreme place. Asteroids pommeled the surface. Volcanoes spewed lava and carbon dioxide. The thick, toxic atmosphere lacked oxygen. Yet, in this turmoil, life emerged.

A study analyzing Cambrian fossils uncovered that the ancestral ecdysozoan likely had a single ventral nerve cord, ...