Fungi evolved over a billion years ago - long before plants - reshaping the timeline of early life and Earth’s first ...

Geologists studying ancient environments have found preserved evidence of salt diapir structures in the rock record. These ...

In the depths of Romania, beneath layers of limestone and time, lies a cave that hasn’t seen sunlight in over five million ...

Methane seeps are rapidly emerging on the Antarctic seabed, signaling shifting ocean dynamics and raising alarms over climate ...

Conserving the microbes in coral reefs, for example, could greatly benefit the people who live near them. Healthy coral reefs ...

Researchers have discovered dozens of new methane seeps littering the ocean floor in the Ross Sea coastal region of ...

In his laboratory at the University of Poitiers in France, Abderrazak El Albani contemplates the rock glittering in his hands ...

It began as a routine deep-sea expedition off theSaudi Arabian coast, one of many missions exploring the submerged topography of the Gulf of Aqaba. But 1,770 meters below the ocean’s surface, a ...

Hidden nearly 2,300 feet beneath the Atlantic Ocean, scientists have uncovered an ancient and active undersea landscape that may hold clues to life’s earliest beginnings — and even the potential for ...

The appearance of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere was a turning point in the history of our planet, forever transforming the environment and setting the stage for complex life. This event, known as the ...

Earth was not always the blue-green world we know today: early Earth's oxygen levels were about a million times lower than we now experience. There were no forests and no animals. For ancient ...