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

The largest living thing on the planet is not a whale or any other animal you might expect. It is a giant fungus that kills anything in its path, currently taking up more than three square miles ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The largest living thing on the planet is not a whale or any other animal you might expect. It is a giant fungus that kills anything in its path, currently taking ...

In eastern California, a Great Basin bristlecone pine known as Methuselah has long been considered Earth’s oldest living thing. According to tree-ring data, Methuselah is 4,855 years old, which means ...

The biggest living thing on Earth is a massive fungus. Whales, redwood trees, and elephants are all very big — but they're not the largest living organism on the planet by acreage. That title ...

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore may face certain effects on their health upon returning to Earth after nine ...

These are the oldest living trees according to the OldList ... Bristlecone pines are the oldest thing on the planet that can be accurately measured. Though animals such as the glass sponges ...

To put that in perspective, the Earth is thought to be about 4.5 billion years old, which means these "rocks"—really bacterial biofilms (a sheet of bacteria only a few cells thick)—have been around a ...