Rather than a constant upward trajectory of evolution, it’s been billions of years of boom-and-bust cycles – first an explosion of life, and then a mass extinction of all but the most hardy hangers-on ...

A new study of ancient fossil trails pushes the origins of complex life deeper into Earth’s history, before the Cambrian Period began.

The Cambrian explosion was an extraordinary phenomenon in the evolution of life on the planet that led to the emergence of ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, Stanford researchers have measured how the abundance of ocean life has changed over the past ...

Dinosaurs ruled the Mesozoic, but Earth’s early ages - like the Ordovician and Silurian - belonged to stranger things. Think sea scorpions longer than humans and jelly-like organisms that left no ...

Image by Zoe schaeffer via Unsplash Farm animals are animals that are primarily raised or kept for their meat, milk, and meat products. As well as to generate an income and assist with farm activities ...

As if a movie about sharks wasn’t scary enough, the filmmakers behind “Dangerous Animals” have upped the screams by adding what every thriller needs — a serial killer. While that may sound like very ...

If you're jumping (or kicking, flopping, or rolling) into Party Animals, one of the first things you need to consider is which of the cute pets to choose as your avatar. It's like walking into a ...

“Dangerous Animals” portrays Bruce Tucker, a serial killer who uses sharks in his crimes. The movie is about Zephyr, a free spirit abducted by Bruce, and her fight for survival.

That makes the Ordovician mass extinction kind of an oddball, actually. “All those later mass extinctions in the Big Five – yes, there's a climate change component to many of them, but it's ...