University of Michigan researchers have used an AI tool to demonstrate that birds in the group Passeriformes evolved in rapid ...

Nature-mad presenter Chris Packham discusses why he loved learning more about the history of Earth for his new TV series ...

In this week's Science for All newsletter, Divya Gandhi explains how water shaped Earth’s evolution three billion years ago ...

According to one researcher, this observation "promises new insights into the evolution of the early universe." ...

Chris Packham fronts a major new BBC series that traces the stories of some of our favourite animals. Is the show another ...

Scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt collecting samples on the Moon on 11 December 1972. (NASA) When Apollo 11 touched ...

A remarkable fossil forest reveals dinosaurs may have helped spread fruit-bearing plants tens of millions of years earlier ...

How do microorganisms orient themselves to find the optimal habitat? Scientists have thoroughly investigated so-called ...

Years before plants covered continents or animals roamed the surface of the planet, Earth’s atmosphere was almost entirely ...

New research suggests plants on Earth could survive for nearly another two billion years — far longer than previously ...

Earth's temperature has been much cooler in the past than previously thought, meaning it could be moving toward the warmest ...

A 150-million-year-old bird fossil, Zhengheornis, reveals the first step in the evolution of the short tails seen in modern ...