In just 8 minutes, we take you on a breathtaking journey through the history of our world, from the moment of the Big Bang to the present day. Earth’s evolution spans billions of years, marked by ...

A fossilized rhino tooth reveals ancient proteins, pushing back the timeline of rhino evolution by millions of years.

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Small but mighty, snails have been a rich part of Earth’s history for at least 500 million years. The next time you see a gastropod inching across your garden, ...

One of Earth's ancient volcanic mysteries solved A new study traces a 120-million-year-old 'super-eruption' to its source, offering insights into Earth's complex geological history.

By studying ancient biochemical signatures, Hugenholtz and his collaborators constructed a timeline of bacterial evolution and oxygen adaptation. 1 Their findings, published in Science, suggest that ...

Scientists reveal new details about the 5.3-million-year-old flood, which triggered earthquakes, generated tropical-storm force winds, and created a waterfall 30 times taller than Niagara.