The northern plains of Mars, marked by thousands of mounds and hills, hold significant evidence of the planet's watery past.

The study of early Earth microbial life and organic matter ... Recent research has focused on various geological formations and ancient environments that may have harbored microbial communities ...

It's long been thought our species was unique in its ability to adapt to harsh climates like bone-dry deserts or thick-set ...

However, even in the absence of oxygen, sulfite is very reactive, and many reactions could have scrubbed it from the early ...

Homo erectus was able to adapt to and survive in desert-like environments at least 1.2 million years ago, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & ...

fill an approximately 25-million-year gap in knowledge by reconciling the molecular clock—or pace of evolution—with the fossil spore record—the physical evidence of early plant life gathered by ...

A long-standing question about when archaic members of the genus Homo adapted to harsh environments such as deserts and rainforests has been answered in a new research paper.

To reconstruct the environmental conditions during the time of Homo erectus, the research team used advanced modeling ...