Isolating the first spark of life on Earth is a matter of biology, geology, and chemistry—but it's also an amazing math ...

Unusually well-preserved fossils have provided the earliest known evidence of a land vertebrate that could pump air in and ...

Scientists have discovered a hidden partnership between ancient microbes that may explain how complex life first evolved on ...

It has long been known that environmental conditions can shape how traits are inherited, a phenomenon known as transgenerational epigenetic inheritance. However, the molecular signals responsible for ...

The fossil record provides a unique archive of how life on Earth has responded to environmental and climatic perturbations through deep time. Marine ...