Evolution is the way groups of life-forms change over time to better fit the places they live.It is why life takes "such ...

Humans lost their ability to synthesize their own vitamin C because our ancestors had access to plenty of fruit.

A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters (Pan Macmillan, 2021 / Picador, 2022: Amazon US / Amazon UK), by senior Nature science editor and novelist, Henry ...

This April, the SciFri Book Club is reading When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution’s Greatest Romance by Riley Black. In the beginning, there were plants. Billions of years ago, ...

Geerat Vermeij wasn’t sure he had another book in him. The 77-year-old paleobiologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Earth and Planetary Sciences already had six books and hundreds of ...

Earth was so cold at the time that the oceans were frozen all the way to the equator, and life only existed in the oceans and on continental shelves, study co-author Donnelly Archibald, of St ...

First human species: Homo habilis, which lived from about 2.0 to 1.6 million years ago. Number of species on Earth: Around 9 million. You can thank evolution for the diversity of life, from ...