Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...

Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants ...

Scientists have finally cracked a long-standing mystery about squid and cuttlefish evolution by analyzing newly sequenced ...

The scientific wonderers at What If condense billions of years of planetary transformation into a single, fast-paced ...

Exactly when and how plate tectonics started, however, is a matter of debate. Now, in a study published March 19 in the ...

A study shows evidence of “evolutionary rescue”—a kind of rapid evolution in which organisms genetically adapt to severe ...

Cycles in the growth and decay of Antarctica's ice sheets once shaped marine biological productivity thousands of miles away ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters) - A remarkable assemblage of fossils from China is revealing that animal life ...

TOI-4616 b is an Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting an M-dwarf that offers a strong benchmark for studying atmospheric loss and ...

A new study reveals how squid and cuttlefish began in the deep sea and survived Earth’s biggest extinction to thrive ...

This question of why some branches of the tree of life explode into thousands of species, while others remain small, has shaped evolutionary biology since Charles Darwin. My colleague and I have ...