Fossils from China's Chengjiang beds reveal that early vertebrate ancestors, jawless fish called myllokunmingids, possessed ...

Despite hillbilly stereotypes and a checkered history, square dancing is on the rise among young and diverse crowds.

Scientists discovered that wrinkled rocks in Morocco were formed by deep sea microbes that survived without sunlight.

Ancient fossils are revealing unexpected chemical survivors, challenging long-held assumptions about how biological carbon is ...

Fossils of the prehistoric fish genus myllokunmingiid, more than 518 million years old, reveal that early vertebrates may have had four functional eyes. Researchers found that two large lateral eyes ...

The earliest recorded vertebrates had four eyes to escape predators in the ancient Cambrian ocean, according to ...

A barnacle evolved into a parasite and drills into sharks in the deep waters of Norway to feed and survive in silence.

For decades, scientists have believed that complex life began when two very different microbes joined forces, eventually ...

The most widely accepted scientific explanation for the arrival of all complex life on Earth has had an unsolved mystery at its heart. According to the theory, all plants, animals and fungi, known ...

Complex cells are thought to be the result of a union between two ancient microorganisms, but scientists have long been ...

Scientists propose that eukaryotes formed when an Asgard archaeon entered into a close partnership with an alphaproteobacterium. Over time, the two organisms became permanently linked. The ...

Jobseekers are to benefit from the roll-out of mobile jobs vans across Great Britain - appearing outside leisure centres, supermarkets and even ...