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Blind Mexican cavefish became active in light while surface fish reacted to darkness, revealing how evolution rewired brains.

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Long before oceans teemed with life, Earth endured relentless violence. Asteroids slammed into its surface again and again, ...

Scientists believe the first true plants evolved from green algae around 470 million years ago. These early plants lived in ...

Analyzing 1.75-billion-year-old microfossils from ancient Australian seabeds, paleontologists say ancient eukaryotes — the ancestors of every plant, animal and fungus — huddled in oxygenated seafloor ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: The BAU is back, baby! And after Criminal Minds: Evolution unmasked The Disciple in Season 18’s eventful finale, Elias Voit (Zach Gilford) headed back to prison to battle ...

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new picture of how life on Earth – and elsewhere – may have begun ...

Stored in an open-air warehouse in tropical Darwin, Australia, are dozens of trays containing cylindrical cores of rock. They are from drill holes bored hundreds of metres below the surface by mineral ...

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Butterfly fish feeding on a coral reef. The ability to bite food off hard surfaces, such as coral, evolved about 50 million years ago and led to the rapid formation of new species of fish on coral ...

In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel talks with the business writer Ed Elson about the rise of the “clip economy”—the idea that short video clips pulled from podcasts, livestreams, and ...