Earth is the only known planet in the solar system that can sustain and provide a habitable environment for life ...

Imagine being transported 500 million years into Earth’s past, landing in a world that feels both alien and dangerously ...

Thomas Halliday, author of Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth’s Extinct Worlds, journeys further back into geological history, examining Jurassic glass sponge reefs, Carboniferous coal swamps, and ...

The earliest known advertisement is a 3,000-5,000-year-old scrap of papyrus from Thebes, Egypt offering a reward for a runaway slave named Shem. Ads remained fairly straightforward throughout the ...

A new scientific review suggests that ancient supercontinents, mountain building, and changes in Earth's magnetic field ...

These ecological pillars, which form the foundation of our planet’s habitability for all life, including humans, have never ...

Two nearly complete fossil mouthparts from Morocco's Fezouata Shale are identified as hurdiid radiodont oral cones and reveal ...

A 518-million-year-old ambulacrarian fossil from China suggests that the common ancestor of starfish and their relatives was ...

A diorama of some of the earliest animals on Earth. Image via Wiki Commons. An ancient fossil bed in Mongolia preserves tiny ...

Rivian is going full steam ahead on developing autonomous vehicle software for its EVs, to the point that it is willing to delay profitability. Founder and CEO RJ Scaringe said last week at TechCrunch ...

The Cambrian explosion was a major diversification of animal life that unfolded early in the Cambrian period, which began around 538.8 million years ago. During this interval, marine animals became ...