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.

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 ...

In a quiet part of what is now South Australia, more than half a billion years ago, life was locked in battle. The ocean ...

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 ...

In a world that looked nothing like today’s, long before the rise of the dinosaurs or even the first trees ... fungi once ruled the Earth. In 2017, a separate fossil fragment from a smaller ...

Discovered 25 years ago, a 444-million-year-old marine arthropod fossil ... and life meets its first bust. The first of five (or possibly six) mass extinctions in Earth history, the Late ...

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