The history of the first plant on Earth is not as simple as the identification of a particular species of plants, but it is a ...

My colleague and I have published a new study of cactus flowers which may help explain the conundrum. For more than a century ...

Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every ...

By reconstructing ancient nitrogen-processing enzymes, scientists are uncovering new clues about how early life survived on a very different Earth.

The cactus on your windowsill may grow slowly, but new research shows that cacti are surprisingly fast at creating new ...

Researchers have uncovered a universal pattern showing how temperature affects life on Earth. Across thousands of species—from microbes to reptiles—performance rises gradually with warming until an ...

The natural and the social world shaped the evolution of each. Knowing whom to invite to dinner is as important as knowing how to cook.

The asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs didn’t keep life down for long. New research shows that microscopic plankton began evolving into new species within just a few thousand years—and ...

A newly identified sponge order, Vilesida, produces sterols linked to the oldest-known animal biomarkers, supporting the idea ...

Paleorex is back on Bored Panda with his detailed, science-based creatures, showing us how animals like big cats, birds, and reptiles might evolve in the future.

Nevertheless he imagined gradation from simple-eyed animals with pigment-coated nerves to ones with eyes of a “high stage of perfection”, such as our own. 11 weirdest, bizarre ...