Paleobiologist Geerat Vermeij is enthralled with mollusks. Their shells line the surfaces and fill the cabinets and drawers in his office on the second floor of the Earth and Planetary Sciences ...

The origin of organisms with complex cells, known as eukaryotes, is one of the most crucial parts of life’s evolutionary story. All animals, plants, and fungi are eukaryotes, and if complex cells had ...

The molecular clock theory posits that genetic changes happen steadily and gradually, offering a reliable means for peering into the past and theorizing when complex life first emerged. However, there ...

Using genetic discoveries based on modern bioluminescent organisms, scientists have estimated coral bioluminescence to have originated in the Cambrian period, about 540 million years ago. This finding ...

Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology at the Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath Depending upon how you do the counting, there are around 9 million species on Earth, from the simplest ...

PART 1: THE HISTORICAL FRAMEWORK: EVOLUTION AS SCIENCE: Before Darwin -- Darwin and natural selection -- The arguments and the evidence for evolution -- PART 2: ORIGINS: THE ENORMITY OF TIME: The ...

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir is one of today's best science fiction books. While much of the science and math is great, it falls a bit when it comes to evolution.

An international team of researchers, led by Danielle DeLeo from the Smithsonian Institution, has identified eight organisms with previously unknown luminosity. Using genetic findings from these ...