Hawaii isn’t just a tropical paradise — it’s one of the most isolated evolutionary experiments on Earth. This video explains how volcanoes created the islands, how plants and animals colonized them ...

Scientists found a 307 million-year-old fossil, Tyrannoroter heberti, revealing one of the earliest known land vertebrates ...

Life on Earth started in the oceans. Sometime around 475 million years ago, plants began making their way from the water onto ...

Tyrannoroter heberti fossil shows one of the earliest land animals to eat plants, changing what we know about how ...

New plankton arrived just a few millennia — maybe even decades — after the Chicxulub asteroid, forcing a rethink of evolution ...

A new study explains how climbing down trees helped shape upright posture in early primates and changed the course of evolution.

"By following universal paralogs," says Kaçar, "we can connect the earliest steps of life on Earth to the tools of modern ...

Researchers investigating the origin of complex life on Earth might have just made a major breakthrough. The origin of humanity and the planet Earth is probably debated more than whether the chicken ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, the first animals to crawl onto land were strict meat-eaters, even as plants had already taken over the landscape. Now scientists have uncovered a ...

Scientists have spent decades cataloging life on Earth’s surface, from rainforest canopies to ocean trenches. But a growing body of research now shows that a vast, hidden biosphere thrives kilometers ...