Today, Earth is home to animals of all shapes and ... and evolved over millions of years of evolution. But what was the first animal on the planet? The answer to this question is heavily debated ...
This isn't actually a tardigrade floating in space, but they are the first animal shown to be capable of surviving space exposure The moon might now be home to thousands of planet Earth's most ...
The story of the team’s incredible discoveries is told in First Animals, a documentary from The Nature of Things. ‘The world’s most important animal fossils’ The fossils of the Burgess ...
The biologist had just come from the first floor, where tanks held a colony ... Ctenophores are one of, if not the, oldest animals on Earth — quite possibly a sister to all other animals in ...
I write about the world of biology. Over 390 million years ago, the ancestors of modern land animals said, “Feet before fins,” and took their first steps on earth. Today, a research team at ...
The earliest humans emerged about 300,000 years ago. While many of Earth’s earliest life forms have long since gone extinct, some animals have stood the test of time–surviving through mass ...