All organisms are made of living cells. While it is difficult to pinpoint exactly when the first cells came to exist, geologists’ best estimates...

IntroductionA tree has something in common with the weeds and mushrooms growing around its roots, the squirrels scurrying up its trunk, the birds perched...

If you looked up 66 million years ago you might have seen, for a split second, a bright light as a mountain-sized asteroid burned...

Advertisement &nbsp &nbsp Large investors used Ethereum’s price crash last week to increase their stash, according to blockchain analytics firm Lookonchain. Ether’s price...

Magnetic data locked in ancient crystals suggest that life may have emerged long before the Earth’s tectonic plates started moving. If...

IntroductionAs a boy growing up in Rochester, England, Chris German knew of his family’s strong maritime tradition, and he had no intention of continuing...

IntroductionAn oak tree. The symbiotic fungus intertwined with its roots. A cardinal chirping from one of its branches. Our best clue yet to their...

IntroductionWhen the paleontologist Michael D’Emic cut into the bones of Majungasaurus, a relative of Tyrannosaurus rex that roamed Madagascar 70 million years ago, he suspected...

Geologists have discovered fossil of around 560-million-year-old specimens. The fossil is believed to be the earliest known animal predator. It has been named ‘Auroralumina...

Three decades ago, a group of archaeologists in China discovered a large set of bones in the Maludong, or Red Deer Cave, in southern...

Rebuilding of marine ecosystems after the devastation at the end of the Permian invited multiple lineages of reptiles to the marine habitat, leading to...