Humans lost their ability to synthesize their own vitamin C because our ancestors had access to plenty of fruit.

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A groundbreaking study suggests that the famous Cambrian explosion—the dramatic burst of diverse animal life—might have actually started millions of years earlier than we thought. By analyzing ancient ...

The summer blockbuster Jurassic World Rebirth is hitting theaters, so Live Science asked paleontologist Steve Brusatte what ...

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

The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the ...

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind' by Yuval Noah Harari takes the readers on a mind-boggling journey of how humans came ...

Temperature combined with ocean currents have a significant influence on the distribution of marine life. These current patterns are shaped by the constant change in the distribution of land and sea ...

“The modern strawberry has about four times as much DNA as the most ancient wild strawberries,” said Vance Whitaker, a ...

A labrador-sized dinosaur was wrongly categorised when it was found and is actually a new species, scientists have discovered ...

A 500-million-year-old fossil from Morocco is helping scientists to answer the evolutionary mystery of how starfish evolved ...