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 ...

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

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

Ever wondered what the world looked like when Homo sapiens first roamed the Earth? In this video, we journey through time to ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

After completing his PhD in 1970 at Cambridge’s Department of Earth Sciences, he moved to the Natural History Museum. As a boy, Fortey took the first fossil he found — an ammonite from Dorset ...

Research suggests that calcium may have played a key role in guiding the development of a specific molecular handedness in ...

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 ...

This study marks the first time the approach ... the lack of rock exposed at the Earth’s surface during that window of time — and thus available for fossil hunters today to scrutinize.