Want to get close to life millions of years ago? It's easier than you think. Here are 15 amazing fossils you could find ...
Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new ...
Around 2.3 billion years ago, the Great Oxygenation Event (GOE) marked a major turning point in Earth’s history. The increase ...
Half a billion years ago, the first true eye emerged in Earth’s oceans. Fossils now reveal what that ancient crystal vision ...
The deep sea is a dark, cold place. It's just a few degrees above freezing, subject to immense pressure, and beyond the reach ...
Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate ...
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Giant string of organic molecules on Mars may be one of the best signs of life yet
A new NASA analysis concludes that it is "reasonable to hypothesize" that living things could have formed the odd organic molecules discovered on Mars.
New minuscule fossils of Purgatorius, the earliest-known relative of all primates—including humans—have been unearthed in a ...
At multiple archaeological sites across southern Africa, researchers have uncovered hundreds of unusual fragments of ostrich eggshell. These pieces date back more than 60,000 years and were engraved ...
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