Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh ...

New research from Japan's iron-rich hot springs shows how early microbes may have harnessed iron and oxygen during the Great ...

The findings show that the common ancestor of the extant fungi was about 1.4 to 900 million years ago. That is far earlier ...

New research reveals fungi, not plants, were Earth's first land colonizers, emerging hundreds of millions of years earlier.

Chemical fossils from 635-million-year-old rocks suggest sponges were among Earth’s first animals, reshaping the story of early life.

MIT geochemists offer compelling evidence that ancient sea sponges were Earth's first animals, emerging over 541 million ...

New research shows ancient Martian rivers once flowed into a vast northern ocean, strengthening the case for a once-habitable ...

Between 800,000 and 430,000 years ago, Earth went through a series of fairly gentle warm-ups that scientists are now calling “lukewarm interglacials. ” The air over Antarctica was chilly during these ...

An asteroid that struck Chesapeake Bay 35 million years ago left a long trail of destruction in its wake, new research ...

Billions of years ago, water flowed across Mars. Most scientists agree the red planet had rivers. But did those rivers flow ...