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

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

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

Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously ...

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 ...

Skeletal remains of "Zimapán man" found with gut bacteria revealing lost microbes and healthier, natural diets before modern ...

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

Because oxygen-bearing sulfate minerals trap and preserve signals from Earth's atmosphere, scientists closely study how they ...