Earth's earliest life forms developed ways to survive the harmful effects of arsenic to cope with dramatic changes in their ...

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the ...

Researchers sequenced ancient Egyptian DNA from a 4,500-year-old skeleton, revealing genetic links between early Egypt and ...

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...

Ancient oceans with phosphorus-rich waters may have supported some of Earth’s earliest microbial life, according to a new ...

The ancient history of Earth has always been hard to read. Most of the planet’s earliest crust has been lost, buried, or ...

The event in question is the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction, also known as the “Great Dying,” which occurred around 252 ...

A new study published in Nature Communications reveals that some of Earth’s earliest complex organisms evolved a remarkable ...

A groundbreaking discovery in northern Quebec has confirmed the existence of Earth's oldest known rocks, dating back 4.16 ...