The James Webb Space Telescope's discovery of unusually bright and massive galaxies soon after the Big Bang has cast doubt on ...

New research is shaking up how we think about evolution, suggesting there's a level of predictability influenced by genes and ...

other scientists were already trying to explain the diversity of life on Earth. One such scientist was Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, ...

The entries emphasize chance’s prominent role in evolution. For instance ... weaving illuminating natural history into ...

L ike many of us, Earth bears old pockmarks. Our planet’s crust has a band of ancient craters that formed around 465 million ...

and the geologist who ten years ago was embarrassed by the shortness of the time allowed to him for the evolution of the earth's crust is now still more embarrassed by the superabundance with ...

A ‘one of a kind’ fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique brains and intelligence of modern ...

CO2 in large quantities can also be deleterious to the evolution of complex life —- particularly intelligent life like our own. We wouldn’t be here at all if our earth hadn’t developed a ...

How might Earth's geodynamic evolution have influenced the chemical composition of the convecting mantle over time? Researchers from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

Palaeontologists have pieced together the brain structure of a bird that lived 80 million years ago named Navaornis hestiae, ...

Evolution had usually been thought of in reference to earthbound processes. (It still is, in most cases.) But today, we can consider how a near-miss asteroid and a possible ring around Earth ...