A bizarre fossil called Prototaxites, which was the largest life-form on land 400 million years ago, may have been a completely unknown form of multicellular life, according to a new study.

Ancient duplicated genes are giving scientists their first real clues about what life was like before all life on Earth shared a common ancestor.

All life on Earth shares a common ancestor that lived roughly four billion years ago. This so-called "last universal common ...

NASA's Perseverance rover discovered rocks on Mars, providing new evidence the red planet was once a wet, habitable world ...

New research shows newborn animals make smart decisions minutes after hatching, using flexible instincts that combine ...

Fay is survived by her daughter Shona, her son Rob, and her grandchildren, as well as what her family lovingly described as ...

Life on Earth may have started with a molecule that still runs our cells today. As researchers probe ribonucleic acid in the ...

long before dinosaurs, earth was ruled by oceans filled with bizarre creatures and landscapes that barely resemble the world today. this documentary explores the paleozoic era, a time when life ...

A Sydney Ph.D. student has recreated a tiny piece of the universe inside a bottle in her laboratory, producing cosmic dust ...