LUCA, short for Last Universal Common Ancestor, is believed to be the single-celled organism from which all life on Earth descended. Estimated to have existed around 4.2 billion years ago, LUCA is ...

While rare, a few birds we studied were rule-breakers. One such rule-breaker is the Eurasian spoonbill, whose highly ...

Researchers found LUCA, our earliest common ancestor, lived 4.2 billion years ago. It had a complex biology, affecting its ...

The life of a 166-million-year-old reptile has been turned upside down. While Marmoretta oxoniensis was believed to have swum ...

Imagine stumbling upon a creature that looks like a mash-up of a duck, a beaver, and an otter—with a dash of poison thrown in ...

Unlike many other art form, movies strive hard to fool the audience into believing what they're seeing, and nothing has ...

Until now, it’s been very hard for scientists to establish a detailed timeline of the early evolution of bacteria.

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We’ll get there soon enough, inching toward the jubilance of what Justin Vernon of Bon Iver sings about in his new single: “And damn, if I’m not climbing up a tree right now / And everything ...

Jurassic World Evolution 2 is available for free on the Epic Game Store right now, where you can oversee all operations across the legendary archipelago in this construction and management game based ...