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Sponges are among Earth's most ancient animals, but exactly when they evolved has long puzzled scientists. Genetic ...

Ancient Australian rocks suggest Earth’s continents formed later than expected and share a common origin with the Moon.

Roughly 2.5 million years ago, a nearby star exploded. Around the same time, the diversity of viruses infecting fish in Africa’s Lake Tanganyika rose dramatically. Three researchers from the ...

(CNN) — The story of two of the strangest animals on the planet just got a little stranger, thanks to clues revealed by a lone fossil specimen that scientists now say represents a long-extinct ...

Earth spins, shifts, and now… flips? Our planet’s gymnastics routine continues underneath our feet nearly every day, but researchers at the Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences in Germany recently mapped ...