Homo erectus outlived and outadapted other hominins by mastering life in extreme environments of Eastern Africa, a new study ...

Scientists discover three species of the famous “Sydney funnel-web spider”, including a larger and more poisonous one in ...

Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...

Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the ...

Discover how scientists blend biology, synthetic biology, and astrobiology to speculate on alien life forms, focusing on the ...

Scientists used AI to design a fluorescent protein unlike any seen before. The AI model, ESM3, simulates evolution on a ...

There might be a type of exoplanet without dry land. They’re called “Hycean” worlds, a portmanteau of ‘hydrogen’ and ‘ocean.’ ...

People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

Many think dinosaurs first emerged on land well south of the equator that now forms part of Argentina and Zimbabwe, but they ...

A recent study at Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Institute of Science Tokyo has developed a theoretical model that uncovers the dual role of polyploidy—organisms carrying extra genome ...

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

The history of life on Earth is a tale of slow burns and sudden explosions, shaped by environmental upheavals and ...