A complete Cretaceous shellfish fossil. (University of Portsmouth) Nature has imbued its mothers with many surprisingly ...

Discoveries from the Isle of Wight have unveiled ancient shellfish fossils that highlight early parental care practices.

Scientists propose that recently uncovered fossils may be the earliest evidence of behavioral “handedness” in animals.

Fossils of Spriggina floundersi provide the earliest evidence of animals favouring one side of the body over the other – a ...

If an alien intelligence were hiding somewhere on Earth, many scientists suspect it might look something like an octopus.

Picture the bottom of a warm Jurassic sea, roughly where southern France sits today, 160 million years before anyone built a road or planted a vineyard. Something impossibly spindly picks its way ...

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems. In the aftermath, jawed vertebrates gained an unexpected edge by surviving ...

A leaked group chat shows what’s been bubbling not so far beneath the surface of the wing-nut Right. Let’s pray it doesn’t ...