The Chicxulub asteroid, for example, pushed the Earth into the Cenozoic Era ... and recovery—one that consistently yields to new forms of life. However, one particular geologic event in that ...

Eurasia has undergone substantial tectonic, geological, and climatic changes throughout the Cenozoic era, primarily associated with ... The Eastern Clade was the first of the six present major clades ...

The end of the Cretaceous Period, 66 million years ago, marked the dramatic extinction of the dinosaurs. Until now, our ...

Humans evolved late in Earth history. While this timing inspired the conclusion that humanlike life is a cosmic improbability ...

“Imagine each species’ genome is a book, and each little DNA fragment is a sentence,” Rohwer said in a press statement. “Each ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.

Picture a primordial Earth: a world of muted browns, grays and greens. Fast forward to today, and Earth teems with a ...

Nearly 15 years later, she’s pursuing new research on the boundaries of life. Felisa Wolfe-Simon, a research scientist who presented findings in 2010 that suggested arsenic could be a building ...

In the paper, the team described the new-to-nature photosynthesis system as providing “a road map for transforming non-photosynthetic microbes into novel photosynthetic life forms”.

So why evolve bright warning signals when camouflage could also deter predators? The answer lies in the local predator ...