Researchers found LUCA, our earliest common ancestor, lived 4.2 billion years ago. It had a complex biology, affecting its ...

Have you ever wondered what the world looked like millions of years ago? Imagine walking in a place where every rock could ...

Prototaxites, which lived between 420 million and 375 million years ago, was the first giant terrestrial life form to inhabit Earth. It grew trunk-like structures up to 8 metres tall and 1 metre wide.

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing over a period of roughly 30 million years, but that would come to a halt ...

Apr. 2, 2025 — An international team has sequenced the first ... Life Evolve Feb. 25, 2025 — New research has revealed how massive ancient glaciers acted like giant bulldozers, reshaping Earth ...

The life of a 166-million-year-old reptile has been turned upside down. While Marmoretta oxoniensis was believed to have swum ...

They are, in the opinion of no less an authority than the paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, “the world’s most important animal fossils ... dawn of complex life on earth more than 500 ...

For years, a mysterious fossil specimen defied categorization, until one paleontologist made a surprising discovery.

A routine fossil-hunting trip turned into a groundbreaking discovery for a pair of researchers when they stumbled upon a rare ...

More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, new research has revealed.