The transition of life from the oceans to land is one of the most remarkable events in the history of evolution. Around 450 million years ago, life on Earth made a dramatic leap from the water to the ...

Fossils from Scotland’s East Kirkton Quarry are now dated to 346 million years ago, offering rare insight into vertebrate ...

Several key moments in Earth's history help us humans answer the question "How did we get here?" These moments also shed ...

It’s like being in a sci-fi movie,” promises Fabien Barati, CEO of the Paris-based company Excurio that created Life ...

Eoin Murphy takes us on a whistle-stop tour of life on ... fossils on Earth dating back to between 3.7 and 3.8bn years ago. However, a 2024 publication in Nature Ecology and Evolution estimates ...

Life is thought to have begun when RNA began replicating itself, and researchers have got close to achieving this in the lab ...

The organization of life on Earth – from the tiniest flora to colossal fauna, from the oceans to the desert to the frozen ...

Once thought to have originated in cows and spread through dust, the surprising evolutionary story of tuberculosis reveals ...

Breakthrough study reveals how woolly mammoths and Arctic animals evolved their cold-weather superpowers over 3 million years ...

Smithsonian researchers trekked to a remote site in northern Canada to collect four-billion-year-old rock samples that could ...