New fossil evidence from China suggests that some of our vertebrate ancestors had four eyes. The study, published in Nature, ...
The discovery shows that ancient vertebrates had a far more complex visual system than previously thought.
Ancient fossils reveal the oldest known vertebrates had four eyes. Remarkably preserved fossil specimens show they could see ...
About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...
Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...
The preservation of fossils of some of the oldest known vertebrates is so impressive that palaeontologists can not only count their eyes, but determine how they worked. The findings demonstrate that ...
The latest installment in the blockbuster film franchise introduced audiences to a cute and tiny herbivore known as an ...
While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A ...
Sleep looks peaceful on the outside, but inside the brain, it is anything but ...
A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.