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Did apes first walk upright on two legs in Europe, not Africa?

6 November 2019

An extinct ape that lived in Germany 11.6 million years ago may have been bipedal – even though walking upright is the hallmark of more human-like species
leaf-like rangeomorphs

The bizarre plant-like animals that say life’s big bang never happened

6 November 2019

The Cambrian explosion is feted as the moment where complex animals burst onto the scene, but the enigmatic Ediacaran creatures that came first are rewriting the history of life on Earth

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