An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Human ...

In a study published in Systematic Biology, researchers from Imperial College London, UCL, Dalhousie University and the ...

While the Nature Astronomy study doesn't confirm that life itself was present on the parent asteroid, it does confirm that ...

Electrical energy may also have sparked the beginnings of life on Earth billions of years ago, though with a bit less scenery-chewing than that classic film scene. But where did that organic ...

When we talk about mass extinction events, the first case that usually comes to mind is when an asteroid struck Earth about 66 million ... was not the worst loss of life in our planet’s history.

And yet, fungi have also been integral to the development of life on Earth. In fact ... about the hidden world we pass by every day on The Nature of Things documentary The Kingdom: How Fungi ...

A group of scientists, working alongside NASA and researchers from Tōhō University in Japan, has determined a staggering timeline for the complete extinction of all life on Earth. According to ...

Humans like to think that being multicellular (and bigger) is a definite advantage, even though 80% of life on Earth consists ...

Iconic landmarks and city skylines around the world went dark on Saturday as millions joined Earth Hour, a global campaign by ...

Scientists have found the oldest impact crater on Earth – and it changes our understanding of our planet and the origins of life ... today in the journal Nature Communications.