Scientists have long sought to understand why sea spiders keep some of their most important organs in their legs.

In this episode, hosts Andrew Daniels and John Gilpatrick dive deep into the mysterious origins of all life on Earth—and the ...

DNA from a prehistoric finger bone found in Siberia’s Denisova cave revealed the existence of a new archaic human that shared ...

That ancestor is called LUCA, the last universal common ancestor, and there is no fossil record to tell us what it looked like. Luckily, we have Jonathan Lambert.

Research led by the National Institute of Biological Sciences in Beijing has discovered that switching on a single dormant ...

All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA—and it likely lived on Earth only 400 million years after its formation.

Small and elusive night lizards probably persisted because they have slow metabolisms and like to hide out in rock crevices, ...

News; Family; Ask Dr. Universe: Fish, humans and all vertebrates share a common ancestor Mon., Feb. 24, 2025 Methuselah the Australian lungfish lives at the California Academy of Sciences. At ...

Society A study discovers that we were wrong about the age of the common ancestor of “all life on Earth.” The study, led by paleogeneticist Edmund Moody from the University of Bristol, claims ...

A recent series of studies suggests that the brains of birds, reptiles and mammals all evolved independently — even though they share a common ancestor. That means evolution has found more than ...

All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA—and it likely lived on Earth only 400 million years after its formation.