A major fossil site bearing witness to the Cambrian explosion and providing evolutionary evidence for early life-forms, it was deemed one of the most surprising scientific discoveries of the 20th ...

The flight of time is measured by the weaving of composite rhythms— day and night, calm and storm, summer and winter, birth and death—such as these are sensed in the brief life of man.

These are called the Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic ... there have been several times when there have been large extinctions of animals and other forms of life. For the most part, ...

The discovery has sparked interest among scientists studying endolithic microorganisms, unknown life forms inside rocks.

Mysterious tunnels in desert rocks may be the work of unknown microbes, hinting at a hidden world inside marble and limestone ...

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments discovered gene fragments that indicated a new and previously undiscovered form ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

A bizarre 400-million-year-old fossil may not be a plant, animal, or even a fungus. Known asPrototaxites, this extinct ...

and their nature evolves throughout the different stages of life. From childhood to late adulthood, each phase presents unique opportunities to form meaningful connections that can influence our ...