Ebola outbreak is ‘very complex,’ but ‘can be stopped’, WHO chief says – National
The head of the World Health Organization has arrived in Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, to support efforts against an outbreak of a rare type of Ebola virus, as medical...
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Complex animals evolved up to 10 million years earlier than previously thought, fossil discovery shows
A trove of fossils uncovered in northwestern Canada suggests that complex animals evolved in North America earlier than previously thought. The site houses more than...
Fossil site in China reveals bevy of complex creatures lived prior to the Cambrian explosion, including a ‘Dune’-like sandworm
A newly discovered trove of fossils in southwestern China is shifting the timeline of when complex animals evolved. The diversity and complexity of animal life...
Ancient ‘Asgard’ microbe may have used oxygen long before it was plentiful on Earth, offering new clue to origins of complex life
More than 2 billion years ago, long before Earth’s atmosphere contained oxygen, one hardy group of microbes may have already evolved to live with the...
2,500-year-old ‘primitive prosthetic’ found on jaw of mummified Scythian woman who survived complex jaw surgery
Around 2,500 years ago in Siberia, a young woman experienced a serious head injury, underwent surgery to reconstruct her jaw, and received a primitive prosthetic...