Virginia Tech study unveils 2 billion years of evolution, highlighting the 'boring billion,' Snowball Earth, and ancient ...

Based on the history of life here on earth, at least one prominent paleontologist thinks that complex life in the cosmos is ...

Ancient species may have evolved at a slower pace and endured longer, but evolutionary rates sped up significantly following ...

Project leader Professor Dan Macqueen emphasized the significance of these duplications in shaping the course of life on our ...

Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the ...

A new study is challenging long-held beliefs about the origins of life and the building blocks that led to the first genes.

Evolution is often depicted as a steady forward march from simple to complex forms. But new research shows that certain ferns can evolve “backward” ...

“Evolution isn't just a story about where we came from. It's an epic at the center of life itself.”– Kenneth R. Miller, Biologist, Brown University If you are reading this sentence, you’re ...

NASA defines life as a “self-sustaining chemical reaction capable of Darwinian evolution.” That means organisms with a complex chemical system that evolve by adapting to their environment. Darwinian ...

Rocks have become life. As rocks erode and flow into the oceans and weather into soil, their minerals provide vital nutrients that underpin both the abundance and evolution of life. In turn, life has ...