Imagine stumbling upon a hidden vault that preserves whispers from a world over half a billion years ago—a time when life on ...

Earth’s history is filled with incredible milestones, and the emergence of the first animals is one of the most captivating.

Researchers found LUCA, our earliest common ancestor, lived 4.2 billion years ago. It had a complex biology, affecting its ...

Many scientists think these primordial seas gave rise to life ... shielding the Earth's surface from harmful solar radiation. The first multicelled animals appeared in the fossil record almost ...

The Middle Jurassic, which lasted from around 174 to 161 million years ago, was a crucial time in the evolution of life on ...

During the first period of the Mesozoic Era (Triassic Period), many new types of animals evolved to fill ... the evolutionary process that led to life on Earth as we know it today.

This new simulation acts like a global weather forecast for all species on Earth, calculating how many ... 1 million and 3 million species of animal life on land, including all the species not ...

While some scientists support the notion of electrically charged beginnings for life’s earliest building blocks, an alternative abiogenesis hypothesis proposes that Earth’s first amino acids ...