For now, life thrives on our oxygen-rich planet. But Earth’s atmosphere won’t always be so welcoming. In fact, scientists ...
The scientists used their data to chart where and when plant species emerged or disappeared across Siberia and Alaska.
Glaciers once inched toward the sea, gouging rocks. When the ice masses melted, they infused oceans with nutrients that may ...
Living organisms need nitrogen as a central building block for protein formation, for example. However, although our ...
Fossil evidence reveals that palm trees once thrived in the Canadian Arctic, challenging everything we know about Earth's ...
A new source of nitrogen has been discovered. Researchers from RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau in southwestern Germany ...
fill an approximately 25-million-year gap in knowledge by reconciling the molecular clock—or pace of evolution—with the fossil spore record—the physical evidence of early plant life gathered by ...
Discover how life on Earth evolved from muted tones to vibrant colours, and how scientists are uncovering the secrets of ...
And yet, fungi have also been integral to the development of life on Earth. In fact, neither land plants nor terrestrial animals would exist them. “Fungi are absolutely remarkable chemists ...
As Earth approaches warmer levels experienced earlier in its geologic history, it may be bad news for human survival.