Interactions between Earth and the solar system have profoundly shaped the planet’s history, influencing evolution and ...

Japanese researchers developed a model to simulate early Earth's atmosphere, revealing how UV radiation and hydrocarbons ...

Charles Darwin comes to mind when we think of the theory of evolution. But before Darwin published his groundbreaking work in ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

The clearest picture yet of our “last universal common ancestor” suggests it was a relatively complex organism living 4.2 ...

The 500-million-year-old primitive fish without bones or teeth has surprisingly advanced anatomical features. “Based on the ...

Microbes profoundly impact evolution, shaping traits alongside genes. Holobiont biology highlights how hosts and microbes ...

Earth teases a different origin story for the Xenomorphs, but it won't mess with Ridley Scott's complicated Alien timeline.

Nearly every bone of the animal has been recovered, and unlike most pterosaur fossils, this specimen is preserved in three ...

“Evolution isn't just a story about where we came from. It's an epic at the center of life itself.”– Kenneth R. Miller, Biologist, Brown University If you are reading this sentence, you’re ...

But how much do you know about evolution? Take our quiz to find out. Hannah Osborne is the planet Earth and animals editor at Live Science. Prior to Live Science, she worked for several years at ...