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 ...

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

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

When astronomers search for evidence of life beyond Earth, what signs are they seeking? Would clues be traced to microfossils trapped within ancient Martian rocks, swim in waters of an ocean world ...

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 ...

We have entered the era of observational astrobiology ... is to find evidence of life on an Earth-like planet beyond our solar system. Madhusudhan said that our species for thousands of ...

The fossils of the Burgess Shale offer a glimpse at the incredible diversity of early life on Earth, frozen in time and locked in stone — you just have to go digging to see it. Working at 2,500 ...

Discover the combinations to create creatures and advance through eras of time ... awakens one day to find Earth destroyed with little life remaining. The planet depends on you.