Unfortunately, the fossil record only provides a very patchy picture of the early days of animals. It's particularly ...

Animals living about 500 million years ago spent time on mudflats that were periodically exposed to the air. The finding suggests that some of the earliest animals were able to survive outside of ...

Now, picture early animals trying to survive in such an extreme environment. This was the reality for early animal life in the oceans and seas about half a billion years ago. This was also the time ...

During warmer periods of the Middle Pleistocene, ancient humans in Italy were in the habit of butchering elephants for meat ...

Emma Hammarlund receives funding from the European Research Council Horizon 2020. Imagine a world where the oxygen you need changes dramatically between day and night. Your world shifts from being ...