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

"At some point it might not be beneficial anymore to stick around with your buddies. But if you don't, you die." ...

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

While researchers are still debating the exact timeline, one thing is becoming clear. Life didn’t take long to get started.

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

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 ...

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

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

How life arose remains a looming question in science that researchers are seeking to answer by studying the features shared among life today. Everything alive is made up of cells, and what made the ...

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

To discover more about the metabolism of what were probably among the very first living organisms on Earth, a team of LMU researchers led by Professor William Orsi from the Department of Earth and ...

NASA research shows oxygen loss, not asteroids, will end life on Earth. Discover when and how this will happen in the distant future. The post Oxygen loss, not asteroids, will end life on Earth, warns ...