The history of life on Earth is a tale of slow burns and sudden explosions, shaped by environmental upheavals and ...

It may seem like Earth isn't as well-decorated as its ring-bearing neighbors in the solar system, but new research suggests ...

The origins of life on Earth have long fascinated scientists, particularly the nature of the last universal common ancestor ...

In a new peer reviewed analysis, scientists quantify amino acids before and after our “last universal common ancestor.” The ...

Researchers have innovatively merged protein structural data with genetic sequences to construct evolutionary trees, ...

A Yale study reveals that elevated marine iodine concentrations disrupted the stabilization of Earth’s ozone layer, delaying ...

The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, according to a new study. It is the first time researchers use data from ...

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

Incredibly, the story of how you are related to all of those species––and millions upon millions more that have gone extinct over the 3.5-billion-year history of life on Earth––can be ...

This makes it difficult for researchers to find out what happened during Earth's early history, as most of the ... Related: Did plate tectonics give rise to life? Groundbreaking new research ...

From weeping trees to teeth stronger than Kevlar, senior curator Dr Tom White sheds some light on a few of the fascinating, unnoticed ways the Moon shapes the course of life on Earth. 'The Moon has ...

Foraminifera, though eukaryotic, have adapted to use chemoautotrophy to enable them to survive where oxygen and sunlight are ...