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

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

The origins of life on Earth have long fascinated scientists, particularly the nature of the last universal common ancestor ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

Sea anemones may hold the key to the ancient origins of body symmetry. A study from the University of Vienna shows they use a ...

"They're on the opposite sides of the globe, but a long time ago they shared a common ancestor," Allison Devlin, jaguar program director for Panthera, the global wild cat conservation organization, ...

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 ...

Two species of worms have retained remarkably similar patterns in the way they switch their genes on and off despite having ...