when the first animals crawled out of the sea onto land. Some details remain fuzzy and under investigation. But we know for certain that this back-to-the-water evolution did occur, thanks to a ...

One of the most important milestones in the evolution of life began some 400 million years ago, when the first animals made their way from water onto land. At that time, known as the Devonian ...

We've found they mixed up the water and enabled resources to spread more widely—potentially encouraging more evolution ... and that animals can affect water flow in ways that influence the ...

"Knowing that such massive, fully aquatic animals still had functional legs, feet, and toes, realizing what this meant for the evolution of whales—it was overwhelming," she remembers. Though ...

Then, some time later, there were their descendants, the early animals: multicelled creatures ... seeking as yet unknown microbes from aquatic sites around the world. So far, he’s identified ...

He then began to consider what the discovery revealed about the evolution of noise-making animals. Fossils often ... period when most species lived under water. That contrasts to recent work ...

A surprise discovery in a remote Australian desert region has given us new clues into the evolution of complex animal life, ...

Also known as water bears and moss piglets ... Yet scientists have long marveled at the resilience of these microscopic ...

Loggers are scaring away the animals. He can’t fish on the river ... Meat has played a starring role in the evolution of the human diet. Raymond Dart, who in 1924 discovered the first fossil ...

The gene that kick off starch digestion potentially duplicated for the first time long before farming.

Biologists from UMD discovered that geckos can detect low-frequency ground vibrations through their inner ear, providing a ...

Migrating animals can bring food and contaminants to their destination. An assessment of Pacific salmon migrations from 1976 ...