Paleontologists have uncovered ancient fossils of a previously unknown aquatic arthropod suggest that the ancestors of modern ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Life on Earth began over four billion years ago, not long ...
Latimeria or Coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae Smith), A living fossil, the oldest known living lineage of Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish and tetrapods).© Openfinal/Shutterstock.com Nature craves ...
The idea of reviving extinct animals has shifted from science fiction into serious scientific debate, driven by rapid advances in genetics and biotechnology. Concepts like bringing back mammoths, dire ...
Armed with the ability to accept all cells as its own, comb jellies can merge with others to survive. Here’s how it works. On a quiet summer day at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, ...
Artist's reconstruction of Sonselasuchus cedrus in its environment in what is now Petrified Forest National Park, 215 million years ago. (Artwork by Gabriel Ugueto) (CN) — An ancient crocodile ...
(CNN) — As Earth Day approaches and the Wonder Theory newsletter celebrates three years of arriving in your inboxes, I look to the future with hope. We all start somewhere. Encouragement and the ...
A team of marine biologists, Earth scientists and evolutionary specialists affiliated with several institutions in the U.K., has found that prior researchers studying a fossil of an ancient sea ...
(CNN) — A massive, fanged creature with a head shaped like a toilet seat lurked in swamps near the edge of the world 280 million years ago, long before the first dinosaurs appeared, new research has ...
Some of the wildest legends may actually be rooted in reality. Ancient people didn’t have science textbooks, just bones in the dirt and stories passed around the fire, and sometimes, those stories ...
A diver entered a hidden water cave in Texas expecting emptiness. Instead, he found evidence of a hidden Ice Age World that ...