The Grand Canyon may rewrite the textbooks on the Cambrian Explosion—a key turning point in Earth's history when there was a ...

Study “presents the first physical evidence that Snowball Earth reached the heart of continents at the equator” says lead ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

Imagine a world where continents are fused into one massive landmass, and life as we know it is on the brink of ...

2024 — This model reveals how vastly different the atmosphere was on ancient Earth, and how life may have first ... Ancient DNA Brings to Life History of the Iconic Aurochs, Whose Tale Is ...

But is it really unprecedented? In a series of five programmes, Justin Rowlatt explores the geochemical history of life on Earth, and discovers how humans are just the latest species to suddenly ...

The S2 meteorite, discovered in 2014, was four times the size of Mount Everest and unleashed a tsunami bigger than any in known human history.

This global deep freeze, known as Snowball Earth, endured for tens of millions of years. Yet, miraculously, early life not ...

If Earth's history were a calendar year, humans would not appear until the last few minutes before midnight on Dec. 31.

Explore the relics of failed settlements, doomed expeditions, and ancient Inuit history on Devon Island, one of the Arctic’s most unforgiving landscapes.

From weeping trees to teeth stronger than Kevlar, senior curator Dr Tom White sheds some light on a few of the fascinating, unnoticed ways the Moon shapes the course of life on Earth. 'The Moon has ...

and shows how large-scale extinctions have had profound and long-lasting effects on the Earth's biosphere. '… sometimes the simplest of truths need to be pointed out to you. Reading Extinctions in the ...