Scientists have long agreed this event was triggered by a sudden surge in greenhouse gases which resulted in an intense and ...

A new study published in Nature Communications reveals that some of Earth’s earliest complex organisms evolved a remarkable ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

Understanding where and in what quantities essential elements for life have existed on Earth's surface helps explain the ...

Scientists say they may have finally found evidence of life's hidden rule which helps govern how species spread across the ...

Phosphorus forms the backbone of DNA, RNA, and cellular membranes. But scientists have struggled to pinpoint the specific conditions under which ...

New research in northwest Saudi Arabia has identified the existence of a network of previously unknown walled oases.

First study to explore how ancient reptiles spread across the Earth after the end-Permian mass extinction. New research ...

How do terrestrial planets like Earth form and evolve to enable life to exist? This is what a recent study published in ...

In 1921, William Bell Riley admonished his opponents that they should “cease from shoveling in dirt on living men,” for the ...