A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

Scientists say they may have finally found evidence of life's hidden rule which helps govern how species spread across the ...

A groundbreaking study suggests that the famous Cambrian explosion—the dramatic burst of diverse animal life—might have actually started millions of years earlier than we thought. By analyzing ancient ...

In just 8 minutes, we take you on a breathtaking journey through the history of our world, from the moment of the Big Bang to the present day. Earth’s evolution spans billions of years, marked ...

Worms radically reorganized their genomes during their move from sea to land, supporting the theory of punctuated equilibrium ...

The strength of Earth’s magnetic field seems to rise and fall hand-in-hand with the abundance of oxygen in its atmosphere, a study of geological records spanning the last half billion years has ...

The findings suggest primitive eukaryotes were widespread between about 1.6 billion and 800 million years ago, comprising what the scientists have called a “lost world” of early complex life.

While Neo-Darwinism can explain the evolution of populations perfectly, it has not yet been able to explain some exceptional and crucial episodes in the history of life on Earth, such as the ...

Regardless of Musk's ambitions, leaving Planet Simple demands more than a rocket: We need a paradigm shift in how we understand our relationship with complex systems.

The intricate, hidden processes that sustain coral life are being revealed through a new microscope, which can be piloted by ...

In 1994 a NASA committee described life as “ a self-sustaining chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution.” The word “system” can mean an individual organism, a population, or an ...