Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a metre-long bony fish with jaws ...

Tests conducted with tardigrades suggest that there is something in Martian dirt that dramatically reduces biological ...

The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like?

Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

A resurrected ancient enzyme is helping scientists test how reliably Earth’s oldest rocks record signs of life.

Scientists are trying to understand how complex life emerged on Earth about 2 billion years ago. Our microbial ancestors could be the key.

Scientists tested whether microbes can survive the shock of a planetary impact and found some may endure the violent launch into space.