Human beings have existed for 300,000 years and have managed to live in many unstable environments. We’ve survived ice ages, ...

Flinders University researchers have taken a revealing look inside the head of one of the first animals to crawl from the ...

BEIJING -- A team of Chinese scientists has announced the discovery of a new fossil lungfish species in Southwest China's Yunnan province, offering important insights into a crucial phase of early ...

The planet's trees have seen plenty of history pass by their trunks. In fact, they began to populate Earth 385 million years ago, toward the end of the Devonian period. Considered living historical ...

There is strong scientific consensus surrounding this story and it is informed by multiple converging lines of evidence.

I first read Lulu Miller’s Why Fish Don’t Exist in 2024. Interspersed with her personal exploration of finding purpose, ...

When we think of the fish that inhabit the deep blue sea today, it’s easy to forget that they haven’t always been there. The ocean was once a much quieter place, populated mainly by smaller creatures, ...

Imagine Earth 360 million years ago: towering mountains near the equator, lush landscapes dotted with early plants, oceans teeming with life. It was the Late Devonian period – a time of dramatic ...