Earth’s magnetic field sustains life on our planet, protecting us from solar winds, radiation and extreme changes in temperature. But around 591 million years ago, it almost collapsed.

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

The study also provides a new approach to solving one of the biggest enduring scientific mysteries: when did plate tectonics ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth. From mosses to ferns to ... has compared algae and plants that span 600 million years of independent evolution and pinpointed a shared ...

Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth. From mosses to ferns to ... from each other in evolutionary terms around 600 million years ago. These hubs appear to bundle information ...

A day on Earth was just 23.5 hours long, 70 million years ago. Researchers discovered this by studying the growth rings of ancient mollusk fossils. The findings could tell us more about or planet ...

continental-size glaciers can cover enormous regions of the earth. Ever since the Pre-Cambrian (600 million years ago), ice ages have occurred at widely spaced intervals of geologic time ...

Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth. From mosses to ferns to ... a research team has compared algae and plants that span 600 million years of independent evolution and ...