The discovery of catalytic RNA transformed our understanding of life's beginnings. Clare Sansom explores how the RNA world ...
Around 540 million years ago, Earth's biosphere underwent a pivotal transformation, shifting from a microbe-dominated world ...
Paleontologists have identified thousands of animal species that lived soon after the Cambrian explosion ended ...
A rock face on the Monte Conero anticline holds many paddle-like footprint tracks packed together on one surface, likely made ...
University of Queensland research has confirmed Brisbane's only dinosaur fossil is Australia's oldest, dating back to the ...
Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...
A bizarre fossil called Prototaxites, which was the largest life-form on land 400 million years ago, may have been a completely unknown form of multicellular life, according to a new study.
The oldest crystals formed on Earth contain signs that continents existed during the Hadean Eon and were being subducted into the mantle more than 4 billion years ago. If true, this would not only ...