The end of the dinosaurs was not just a spectacular finish, it was a brutal reset of life on Earth. In the geological instant ...
A fossil jaw found in Ethiopia shows Paranthropus ranged far north, challenging long-held ideas about early human relatives and their diets.
About 700 million years ago, Earth was entombed in a veneer of ice hundreds of feet thick—a frozen state scientists refer to ...
It was long thought, up until recently, that asteroids and comets delivered Earth's oceans during the very early Solar System ...
Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths ...
Learn how geological clues preserved in ancient oceans link repeated volcanic eruptions to Triassic marine extinctions.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The view from the Nuvvuagittuq greenstone belt, Nunavik, Quebec, Canada. - Jonathan O’Neil A rocky outcrop in a remote corner of ...
The discovery of catalytic RNA transformed our understanding of life's beginnings. Clare Sansom explores how the RNA world ...