Isolating the first spark of life on Earth is a matter of biology, geology, and chemistry—but it's also an amazing math ...

Two fish fossils found in China have given us more insight into what bony fish looked like before separate lineages diverged.

The nanozymes hypothesis proposes that mineral nanoparticles drove chemical evolution on early Earth, helping transform inert matter into life through catalytic and environmental processes.

A remarkable fossil discovery in southwest China is rewriting the story of how complex animal life began, showing that many key animal groups appeared millions of years earlier than scientists once ...

A fossil assemblage from Yunnan province in southwest China is reshaping scientific understanding of how animal life ...

Fossils in China show that complex animals existed before the Cambrian explosion, changing our understanding of how life ...

A fossil bed in China containing animals up to 554 million years old suggests that we may have to reconsider the idea that ...

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A surprisingly simple measure may offer clues about longevity. Muscular strength, as determined by two tests, was a key predictor of a person’s risk of death, according to a new study published in ...

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The name Jean-Baptiste Lamarck has long carried a black mark in the annals of science. The 18th-century French noble was the guy who got evolution wrong, believing that characteristics acquired during ...

Over the past decade, scientists have come up with a variety of frameworks to guide their search for life in the universe. While it’s most convenient to start looking for life using the knowledge that ...