New research, facilitated by cutting-edge techniques, led to one of the first examples of physical proof for ancient ritual ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fossilized animal waste may have recycled nutrients and helped complex marine ecosystems flourish during the Cambrian Explosion.

A group of sea animals that first appeared more than 500 million years ago may share a wormlike ancestor with two other ...

Ancient animal waste may have helped transform Earth’s oceans more than 500 million years ago. A new international study led by Flinders University argues that fossilized feces played a key role in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeological sheep bones unveiled at a Bronze Age site in the Eurasian steppe. Ancient animal bones are the key to understanding ...

MIT geochemists offer compelling evidence that ancient sea sponges were Earth's first animals, emerging over 541 million years ago. By analysing chemical fossils in rocks, researchers identified ...

We often think of microbes as organisms that live around us, like the Salmonella bacteria and flu viruses that cause illness. But some of our most intimate relationships are with the microbes living ...

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Deep in the cold, dark sea, one of the most bizarre survivors of evolution can be found: the hagfish. Dubbed the ‘slime monster,’ this eel-like animal has managed to survive more than 300 million ...

More than 250 million years ago, Scotland was not veiled in mist and rain, as it often is today, but rather a desert blanketed in sand dunes. One of the denizens of this challenging landscape was a ...