Accurate phylogenetic trees are fundamental to evolutionary and comparative biology, but the almost simultaneous emergence of major animal phyla and diverse body plans during the Cambrian Explosion ...

Necklaces dating back to the Upper Palaeolithic have been recreated from caves in southern Spain, with some of the beads made from the shells of fossilized marine mollusks. Curiously, however, the ...

They didn’t look like much at first, just a scatter of white slivers along the tide line. They could’ve passed for fish bones or bits of plastic, the kind of debris beachcombers often overlook. But a ...

They didn’t look like much at first, just a scatter of white slivers along the tide line. At a glance, they could’ve passed for fish bones or bits of plastic, the kind of debris beachcombers often ...