A University of Michigan researcher has discovered an early innovation in the way fish eat. A scientist from the University of Michigan has helped uncover the earliest evidence of a tongue-like biting ...

Scientists discovered molecular fossils that reveal sponges were among Earth’s earliest animals.

At a certain point in Earth’s distant past, the planet’s assortment of organic molecules and compounds aligned to create the ...

Scientists discovered chemical fossils in ancient rocks that suggest sea sponges were among the first animals to live on Earth.

Snailfish living in deep-sea trenches in the Pacific and Indian oceans may have wider geographic distributions than ...

Losing your baby teeth is a strange experience. The teeth gradually loosen until they're replaced by thicker, more durable ...

A new discovery by our team, published in the Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, shows the start of this process dates back more than 380 million years. The first evidence of teeth in any vertebrate ...

Carved out by the Upper Iowa River, Northeast Iowa provides a phenomenal spectrum of opportunities for outdoor recreation. Whether you are a fan of a lazy float down the river, fishing or mountain ...

Now, in a new study published in Nature, scientists from the University of Geneva, EPFL, and collaborators in the U.S. have ...

(THE CONVERSATION) From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of glass and bright white structures. Despite being just ...

The frilled shark is basically a living dinosaur that’s been swimming around our oceans for 80 million years, and it […] ...

I plotted my journey to sample Ireland’s sauna renaissance to visit the sea, the saunas and some of the West’s most untamed corners ...