More than 2.3 million ancient genetic switches discovered in plants reveal how key growth controls endured 300 million years ...

From a swirling cloud of cosmic dust to a planet teeming with life, Earth’s story is nothing short of unbelievable. We travel across 4.5 billion years of planetary evolution. Witness the birth of our ...

Fossils show that howler monkey ancestors, Stirtonia victoriae, were eating leaves 13 million years ago, altering body size ...

There is a category of planet that belongs to no star. It was thrown clear of its solar system early in the chaos of ...

Inside the growing scientific quest to understand what creatures with the extraordinary ability to defy the ravages of time ...

A warehouse worker, Teddy (played by Jesse Plemons), accuses high-powered CEO Michelle (Emma Stone) of being an ...

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 potted scarlet monkeyflower would die within a few days without water. But multiple natural populations of the species ...

Paleobiologist Geerat Vermeij is enthralled with mollusks. Their shells line the surfaces and fill the cabinets and drawers in his office on the second floor of the Earth and Planetary Sciences ...

Escalators are one of those places where adults might wish to indulge their inner child and move in the opposite direction, ...

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

Earth experienced several periods in its history when ice covered nearly the entire planet, known as snowball Earth events. A study at the Earth-Life Science Institute at Institute of Science Tokyo ...