Earth’s magnetic field sustains life on our planet, protecting us from solar winds, radiation and extreme changes in temperature. But around 591 million years ago, it almost collapsed.

Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...

Life on Earth had to begin somewhere, and scientists think that “somewhere” is LUCA—or the Last Universal Common Ancestor.

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth. From mosses to ferns to ... from each other in evolutionary terms around 600 million years ago. These hubs appear to bundle information ...

Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth. From mosses to ferns to ... has compared algae and plants that span 600 million years of independent evolution and pinpointed a shared ...

A day on Earth was just 23.5 hours long, 70 million years ago. Researchers discovered this by studying the growth rings of ancient mollusk fossils. The findings could tell us more about or planet ...

Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth. From mosses to ferns to ... a research team has compared algae and plants that span 600 million years of independent evolution and ...

shielding the Earth's surface from harmful solar radiation. The first multicelled animals appeared in the fossil record almost 600 million years ago. Known as the Ediacarans, these bizarre ...

The journey to Earth's vibrant colours began over 600 million years ago with the evolution of vision. Fast-forward to today, and this advancement has resulted in trichromatic vision, the ...