An astronomer at Columbia University is suggesting that because life emerged so soon on Earth after its formation, it may ...

dividing the history of life into eras, periods, and epochs based on fossil evidence. In this feature, explore the history of life on Earth as we know it today, from the earliest bacteria to the ...

How animate life was formed from inanimate matter has always been a mystery, but scientists are closer to finding what may ...

Buried below the earth in ancient rock, scientists based in Australia have discovered evidence of an event that disrupted the ...

New Curtin University research has revealed that a massive meteorite struck northwestern Scotland about 200 million years ...

The Triassic Period was a time of great change. Bookended by extinctions, this era saw huge shifts in the diversity and dominance of life on Earth, ushering in the appearance of many well-known groups ...

In the Late Ordovician era, they formed a symbiotic relationship ... an asteroid strike would wipe out 70 percent of all life on Earth. But it wouldn’t happen all at once. The lack of sunlight ...

3 min read Continents were on the move in the Cretaceous, busy remodeling the shape and tone of life on Earth. At the start ... never be the same in the new era that dawned after the close of ...