Scientists have uncovered new clues about some of Earth’s earliest fish, shedding light on the ancient origins of vertebrates ...

The planet's trees have seen plenty of history pass by their trunks. In fact, they began to populate Earth 385 million years ...

A river in Australia may have been flowing for 300 to 400 million years, long before dinosaurs existed. How did the ancient Finke River survive dramatic geological changes for so long?

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

Scientists discovered some of the oldest bony fish fossils in China. The fossils explain the early history of animals with backbones.

UC College of Arts and Sciences Professor Thomas Algeo has been studying the planet's five major mass extinctions since the Ordovician Period, when global sea levels were much higher than today. In a ...

Scientists have revealed new details about ancient fish more than 400 million years old, which became the ancestors of ...

In a groundbreaking find, researchers have discovered traces of ancient microbes in an unexpected location. This stunning revelation could change how we understand the origins of life on Earth. The ...

How a collection of London pigeons and Galápagos mockingbirds provided the receipts for Darwin’s biggest ideas.

Earth and environmental sciences cover all aspects of Earth and planetary sciences, and broadly encompasses solid Earth processes, surface and atmospheric dynamics, Earth system history, climate and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many people are uneasy around spiders, and it’s easy to see why. While most species are small and harmless, some spiders grow to ...