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

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

The mystery behind the origins of the dinosaurs may have been given a new twist, with a modeling study suggesting they may have evolved in what is today equatorial Africa and South America. This would ...

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.

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

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

Dinosaurs long dominated Earth's land ecosystems with a multitude of forms including plant-eating giants like Argentinosaurus, meat-eating brutes like Tyrannosaurus and weirdos like Therizinosaurus, ...

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

Smallest Arm Bone in Human Fossil Record Sheds Light on the Dawn of Homo ... 2024 — A new study illuminates the cultural evolution that took place approximately 50,000 to 40,000 years ago ...

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

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 ...