Animal life, emerging nearly 600 million years ago, showcases incredible diversity and unique traits. Unlike plants, animals ...

Mono Lake, tucked in the Eastern Sierra, is no ordinary lake. Its eerie tufa towers and teeming swarms of brine shrimp and ...

For most of human history, the overall population is believed to have remained quite low. But since the early 1800s, the ...

Around 591 million years ago, Earth’s nearly vanished magnetic field triggered a surge in oxygen that paved the way for ...

Earth's magnetic field was so weak it almost disappeared. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, complex life emerged.

But Mosura was different. Instead of the familiar streamlined body with flaps and claws, this little predator had something ...

"My contention is that Earth may, if we are lucky and diligent and clever enough, grow an emergent superconsciousness." ...

Researchers have made a surprising discovery of Henneguya salminicola, a microscopic parasite residing in salmon muscles, as the first multicellular ... single-celled organisms such as fungi ...

Depending on your definition, the Earth features many "biggest" living things. Today we're looking at where they stack up against each other and figuring out why the largest organism on Earth ...

These are the first hints of a world that is possibly inhabited ... Their oceans are hypothesized to be warmer than Earth’s. Asked about possible multicellular organisms or even intelligent life, ...

These are the first hints of an alien world ... Their oceans are hypothesized to be warmer than Earth's. Asked about possible multicellular organisms or even intelligent life, Madhusudhan said ...